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Originally Posted by marino760
Agreed. It's just my opinion that Lexington has reached the tipping point where it has become large enough to attract gangs and all the negative aspects that brings with it. I've seen it happen before, where a small city with relatively low crime will grow at a good rate and then with the larger population comes gangs. I hope I'm wrong about this, but once that happens there's almost no turning back. Getting rid of established gangs is almost impossible. You learn to live with the crime and shootings and hope you're not at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Gang violence becomes a Hatfield and McCoy feud on a large scale. Violence begets revenge violence. Non gang violence is less random, it's hard to shoot someone you know. Gangs make violence faceless, you're shooting someone on the other team because they shot someone on your team. There seems to also be an uptick in drug problems at the same time and drug money is where gangs get funding.
5 more murders In Louisville in 2021 will set a new record. Keep in mind just 10 years ago, the murders, total for the year, were in the 40’s. That’s 5x more murders.
Something similar happened several years back (The police Chief said it was the Detroit mob trying to infiltrate the Lexington drug scene and fighting with local drug pushers(sounds like the fourth season of Justified, doesn't it???)...and he said that if you weren't involved in illegal drugs, your chance of being of a victim was pretty slim.)That ended shortly after it began.
I am not sure what the deal is now.
Certain areas seem more effected by this than others. Our area of the city hasn't been effected, at least not yet...but I live way out in the suburbs close to Jessamine County.
I used to live in Nicholasville. It's so much better than Lexington.
So are all of these shootings occurring where people are driving up and down streets in all of the "good" neighborhoods mowing people down randomly? If not, getting riled about it is ridiculous.
Last year there was 44 homicide victims in Lexington.
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According to Belinda Snead, 44 homicides in one year, is too many. That was the number the city logged in 2022. “One is too high of a number when it could have been prevented. That is the problem, that’s what makes me angry,” Snead said. https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisvi...omicide-rates-
Last year there was 44 homicide victims in Lexington.
I'm usually left wondering what the big picture is. If there were 44 homicides, how many shootings and stabbings were there where people ended up not dying? Double that or triple that number? It's only luck and good doctors that save you if you're shot and don't die. Just counting homicides doesn't give the whole story. A total of homicides and attempted homicides would give a clearer picture.
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Nothing when compared to Louisville
