Written by Maxwell Mitchell Stay Live Streams
On May 21st, 2025 President Donald J. Trump announced the cancellations of new or recently new consent decrees against law enforcement both in Minneapolis, MN and Louisville, KY. On that same day, Mayor Greenberg announced the Community Commitment. This document, this local commitment if you will was to be a promise to the community that reforms have and would be made in both Louisville Metro Government and Louisville Metro Police Department.
Despite Mayor Greenberg’s promises and claims, many have turned their heads to the process whether it be due to lack of faith, lack of consistency from LMPD or just disbelief that much or anything would change. I will explain what I mean by an example straight from the Community Commitment itself. On March 27th, 2026, 911 was called to an apartment for a wellness check in the 18th district of Louisville, KY. The wellness check resulted in the shooting and killing of Katelyn Hall. Officers involved were Robert Baker and Robert Gabbard. Per the Community Commitment it is stated that after an officer involved shooting there is to be a review of their Use of Force
policies for the community to give feedback. This was done in phases but this paragraph is only referring to the first phase which consisted of only 67 responses. I want to explain why it is important that we think about that number a bit more. In a city of 750,000+ people where this Community Commitment is to serve, there were 67 responses. Many have their different reasons for not getting involved in this process but one thing we continue to question is, with the low number of Community paying attention to this process, who exactly was the commitment actually between?
To find out more about the Community Commitment, the Independent Monitor’s, the Implementation plan and more, feel free to ask us on any one of our social accounts, just search, Stay Live Streams. There is so much to be aware of throughout this community commitment process and if it is in your desire, we can be a useful aid along that educational path. For example, the next meeting of the Independent Monitor’s will be in.
