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Somehow, this is still the fault of white people.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. The loss of life is so massive it’s hard to fathom.
In 2020, 173 people in Louisville were victims of criminal homicides, according to metro police shot, bludgeoned, strangled or stabbed to death.
Another 20 people were slain in homicides investigated by other Jefferson County police agencies or in cases that didn’t result in criminal charges.
The number of slayings in 2020 dwarfs anything Louisville has seen obliterating the previous record of 117 criminal homicides in 2016.
And yet, in an unrelenting year of protests in the midst of a viral pandemic that itself killed 530 people across Jefferson County, the constant drumbeat of violence has made many of us numb.