Louisville unveils online dashboard to track shootings and gun violence

Rachel Smith, Louisville Courier Journal
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People can now track reported shootings in Louisville through a real-time, interactive dashboard, provided by Louisville Metro and LMPD.
People can now track reported shootings in Louisville through a real-time, interactive dashboard, provided by Louisville Metro and LMPD.

People can now track reported shootings in Louisville through a real-time, interactive dashboard.

Using data from the Louisville Metro Police, people can access where homicides and nonfatal shootings happen, down to specific neighborhoods and reported blocks.

In a news conference Tuesday, Mayor Craig Greenberg said the tool is designed to increase awareness of gun violence in the city as well as inspire community organizations and residents to be part of a multi-layered solution to crime prevention.

"Until people are talking about the tragedies of gun violence every day, particularly concentrated in neighborhoods of poverty (and) neighborhoods that are primarily Black people living, we're not going to get change," Greenberg said. "We need change, and this data can help advocate for change."

Updating daily, the data set goes as far back as 2010 and provides several different types of measurements, such as most common times or days for violence in various locations. It also gives anonymized information on the victims of gun violence besides detailed trend reports.

As part of the filter system, people can look at the data citywide or break it down to specific neighborhoods.

The grant-funded project is a collaboration between LMPD and the Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods.

Lt. Col. Emily McKinley said this dashboard also can help the community understand LMPD's violence prevention strategies as well as where and why resources are used throughout the city.

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The dashboard can be accessed now from the front page of Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods' Louisvilleky.gov website and on LMPD’s site.

"This data needs to be at top of mind for people so that our city, our state, our country takes action to make Louisville and all cities safer (and) to make our country a safer place that's free of gun violence," Greenberg said.

Reach reporter Rachel Smith at rksmith@courierjournal.com or @RachelSmithNews on X, formerly known as Twitter.

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