Sytisha Claycomb, a psychologist and public protection coordinator at Louisville Metro Youth Detention Center, directs police to detain wayward youths short of full arrest by delivering them to a YMCA Safe Place on Crittenden Drive instead of taking them through the traditional detention process at Louisville Metro Youth Detention Center. Parents are then called to collect their children although the youths do not have to stay at the center. They are free to leave and return to the streets. That appears to be the current plan. There is no evidence that residents in the area of the YMCA Safe Place are aware that youths detained for street crimes are then free to walk away from the center
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This is not a post about race
by Terry Meiners March 26, 2014 This is not a post about race. It is a post about a community's inherent mission, the protection of its law-abiding citizens from predators. The Great Wall of China is not a decoration. That wall, forts, castles, and foxholes were created for protection from predators. People who live in a community do so with the understanding that they will protect each other - or pay taxes to afford efficient protection - from those who would burst the order of the community. When a person or persons within the community breach that pact, they are sent to another sturdy construction called a prison so that they cannot continue preying upon their community. GHOST TOWN ON THE RIVER In the 1970s,