LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said he wants to see judges hold violent criminals accountable, providing serious consequences when people are convicted to keep dangerous people off the streets.
Greenberg joined WDRB Mornings on Tuesday, lamenting another violent year in Louisville and emphasizing a need for criminals to remain in jail.
"It also needs to be a deterrent to others," he said. "We cannot accept gun violence in our community. And this is one way to show that that that's not going to be accepted."
Jefferson County has had at least 93 homicides so far this year, a pace that rivals the deadliest years in history.
Retired Jefferson County Judge McKay Chauvin said judges likely share the same safety concerns as members of the Louisville community.
"When passions run high, it's easy to misinterpret a judge's deference to the Constitutional rights of the accused and the due process of law as indifference," Chauvin said in a written statement Tuesday. "But in the 35 plus years I've worked in the criminal justice system, I have yet to meet a single judge who was "pro crime" or "pro gun violence.
"Judges are called on to make difficult legal decisions that impact the lives of the people who appear before them. They are obliged to make those decisions fairly, dispassionately, and according to law even, or even especially, when what they decide may not be readily understood or popular with their neighbors."
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