Pegasus Institute

The coronavirus has produced plenty of unprecedented changes, including a near nation-wide lockdown. In addition to closing restaurants,...

The Fair Chance Act has passed in the House as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act. The bill codifies President...

Kentucky’s expanding prison population has been a source of conversation and policy debate for years now, but probation and parole—two of...

The Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) has examined a snapshot of data from November 1 of last year and found that a...

Eight months ago, after meaningful drops in homicides and shootings in Louisville, we first examined the role that self-initiated...

In December of 2017, the Boyle and Mercer County Fiscal Courts, commissioned a report on what improvements they could make to their...

As cities like Baltimore and St. Louis continue to struggle with rising homicides and non-fatal shootings, the release of the LMPD UCR...

Louisville’s first football game last season was a dazzling performance by Lamar Jackson. I was lucky enough to be there in person. Sure,...

Since first introduced in 1997 by preeminent gun researcher John Lott and Professor David Mustard, the idea “more guns, less crime” has...

In 2015, the US experienced a 3.9% increase in violent crime nation-wide, and while national data isn’t yet available for all of 2016,...

There have been many questions and concerns, and a great deal of confusion surrounding Senate Bill 120. This bill is corrections...

Senator Westerfield has filed Senate Bill 120, a culmination of the first efforts of Gov. Bevin’s Criminal Justice Policy Assessment...

Do the people of Louisville love their city? New survey results suggest that this answer is not so easy to come by. While overall it...

After a packed first week followed by several weeks off, the Kentucky General Assembly will return on Tuesday for the remainder of this...