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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics

>> Continue reading: 2007 Louisville Homicides

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How WHAS11 got the exclusive on the dentist office drug ring, and how a local company's response provides a good lesson.

I have been using my blog to provide a lot of details and background information on my stories, but one of the main reasons WHAS11 launched these blogs was to provide some transparency into how we do our job.

>> Continue reading: Dentist Drug Ring Scandal

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In an earlier blog entry, I raised the question if "talk" of a grand jury date in the J'Town parking lot shooting indicates any leanings by the Commonwealth's Attorney.

>> Continue reading: Jeffersontown Shooting: Clarification from Commonwealth's Attorney

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Some interesting revelations from Darren Pickerill's sister on a new MySpace page.

>> Continue reading: Jeffersontown Shooting: Darren Pickerill's MySpace page

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Investigation:

Jeffersontown Police Chief Rick Sanders tells me he met, as scheduled, with Commonwealth Attorney Dave Stengel on Friday, July 27.

>> Continue reading: Jeffersontown Shooting: Eight Week Update

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"The wheels of justice move exceedingly slow and grind exceedingly fine." The investigation of the murder of Cesar Ivan Aguilar Cano started with daily revelations and developments, but at the two week mark, very little progress was evident.

>> Continue reading: Justice for Ivan: No news is ??

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I had a nice visit with Jeffersontown Police Chief Rick Sanders. He tells me that he hopes to forward the Rick Koenig shooting investigation to the Commonwealth's Attorney by mid-August. He also revealed a few other things we didn't know.

>> Continue reading: J'Town Shooting: One More Month?

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Why has the immigrant status of Ivan Aguilar-Cano's parents become the rage on internet message boards? Rosa Cano went to Chicago on Monday, July 15th with her boyfriend and 20 year old son to seek Guatemalan passports. She wants to accompany her murdered son's body to Guatemala then return to the U.S..

>> Continue reading: Justice for Ivan: Immigration Issues

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The tragedy of 4 year old Cesar "Ivan" Aguilar-Cano's murder hit home on Saturday, July 14, when Sr. Larraine Lauter, OSU talked to our Rebecca Rector outside Holy Name Catholic Church.

>> Continue reading: Justice for Ivan: "The family received his body"

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You've seen the LMPD Compstat reports on WHAS11.com. I sat down with LMPD Col. Phil Turner to talk about how the department uses these crime maps and statistics to find trends and attack them.

>> Continue reading: Tracking 7% Drop in Crime

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In a recent story about the LMPD Crisis Intervention Team, I explained how it's not a separate unit of police but represents a change in the mindset of police in dealing with those who might be mentally ill.

But when I asked to see how many of those cases police deal with, I was stunned by these numbers.

>> Continue reading: Surprising Numbers from Metro Police

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