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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies , the state had 389 law enforcement agencies employing 7,833 sworn police officers, about 183 for each 100,000 residents.
The Kentucky State Police (KSP) is a department of the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, and the official State Police force of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, responsible for statewide law enforcement. The department was founded in 1948 and replaced the Kentucky Highway Patrol.
The number of no-knock raids has increased from 3,000 in 1981 to more than 50,000 in 2005, according to Peter Kraska, a criminologist at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond. [19] In 2010, Kraska estimated 60,000–70,000 no-knock or quick-knock raids were conducted by local police annually, the majority of which were looking for marijuana. [1]
Kentucky I-75 shooting suspect vowed over text to ‘kill a lot of people,’ arrest warrant says. Elizabeth Wolfe, Zoe Sottile and Gloria Pazmino, CNN. September 9, 2024 at 7:08 PM.
Czech courts may issue an arrest warrant when it is not possible to summon or bring in for questioning a charged person and at the same time there is a reason for detention (i.e. concern that the charged person would either flee, interfere with the proceedings or continue criminal activity, see Remand in the Czech Republic).
Doug Harless, 61, was fatally shot by police who showed up at his door to serve a search warrant
Kentucky v. King , 563 U.S. 452 (2011), was a decision by the US Supreme Court , which held that warrantless searches conducted in police-created exigent circumstances do not violate the Fourth Amendment as long as the police did not create the exigency by violating or threatening to violate the Fourth Amendment.
The Oath Keepers has a large presence in Kentucky. The militia has been identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as one of the eight major anti-government groups in the state. [1] Kentucky has also been described as one of the major 'activity clusters' of the group. [2] As of 2021, the group has 513 members.