Retired cop says US is ‘a different country’ than 5 years ago after women were attacked

In Nashville, Tennessee, five women were attacked in the past three months by strangers with criminal backgrounds. FOX 17 Nashville first reported it.

“We live in a different country than we did five, 10, 15 years ago,” Ken Alexandrrow told Fox News Digital. Alexandrow is a veteran and founder of tactical training company Agape. Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) officer He spent three years as a member of the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force.

The most recent attack was on 34-year-old Vanderbilt graduate Alyssa Lokits. Lokits was allegedly shot by a stranger while he was running on the Mill Creek Greenway. southeast Nashville.

MNPD officers arrested 29-year-old Paul Park of Brentwood and charged him with murder 24 hours after Lokits was found dead in the road. Authorities have not yet determined the cause of this seemingly random attack.

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Nashville Police announced the arrest of a suspect 24 hours after the murder of Alyssa Lokits. (Metropolitan Nashville Police/Vanderbilt University)

Accordingly Williamson County Park had a prior criminal history that consisted of two felonies, according to court records obtained by Fox News Digital.

Park was sentenced to probation as part of judicial diversion following his arrest for domestic assault in 2017.

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Later in 2018, Park was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on probation for violating her original probation sentence following her arrest for drug possession with intent to manufacture, distribute or sell. One of the three drug charges was eventually dismissed as part of a plea agreement, and Park pleaded guilty to the other two drug charges.

The license plate of Paul Park’s gray BMW sedan was not captured on security cameras; But thanks to a partial license plate number captured by a hiker’s dashcam, police were able to arrest the suspected killer. (Metro Nashville Police Department)

According to FOX 17’s first report, two men with multiple criminal records allegedly attacked four different women in completely separate incidents in August.

Jacob Harrison Thompson, 29, was charged with: aggravated kidnapping, attempted aggravated rape There was an attempted rape in connection with the attack on a 29-year-old woman in her car and a 30-year-old woman in a toilet. Both attacks occurred in downtown Nashville.

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Jacob Harrison Thompson, 29, was charged with aggravated kidnapping, attempted aggravated rape and attempted rape in connection with the attacks on a 29-year-old woman in her car and a 30-year-old woman in a restroom. Both attacks occurred in downtown Nashville.

Thompson was listed as homeless at the time of the two incidents. He was previously sentenced to 5 years in prison for aggravated burglary in 2010 and 16 years in prison for particularly aggravated burglary in 2011.

Deontez Drew, 27, the second suspect in the attacks on two women in downtown Nashville, was listed as a registered sex offender at the time he allegedly attacked a 39-year-old woman and a 23-year-old woman. Both are in the city center as the victims walked.

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Tourists explore bars and country music venues in the Lower Broadway entertainment district in Nashville, Tennessee. (Robert Alexander)

Drew was allegedly armed with a knife and a baseball bat, respectively, during two separate incidents.

“No matter what the polls say, crime has only increased.”

— Ken Alexandrrow

“These stats and statistics are being manipulated. The biggest reason is that less than half of police departments actually report level one crimes,” Alexandrow said.

A 2023 White House report states that “as of January 1, 2023, only 67% of law enforcement agencies were submitting crime data to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).”

Deontez Drew was listed as a registered sex offender when he allegedly attacked a 39-year-old woman and a 23-year-old woman downtown while the victims were walking. (MNPD)

The FBI also recently updated its 2022 crime statistics to show the increase in crime that year. As Fox News Digital previously reported, the FBI originally recorded a 1.7% decrease in violent crimes two years ago, but updated those figures to actually show a 4.5% increase in violent crimes in 2022.

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“With the actions of people who want to marginalize and minimize the police presence, that’s exactly what you get,” Alexandrow said. “And when there are people who want to film the police all the time… when there are people who want to fire them for doing their job, for doing the best they can, who wants to do that job? After all, who suffers for it? Well, women in Nashville, people in Nashville, Nashville Businesses in.”

He continued: “You’re asking (the police) to do a thankless job and you’re persecuting them and in some cases you’re prosecuting them for doing their job and then you’re upset about the increase in crime. This conflict is an oxymoron.”

Alexandrow added that visitors “can have a great time in Nashville,” but like other major cities, tourists need to be extra careful and aware of their surroundings. (William DeShazer for The Washington Post)

In cities like Nashville, overcrowding in jails has become a problem that affects how and when some criminals are released, Alexandrow said.

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“The only misnomer about prison is that it rehabilitates people, but it doesn’t. It just makes you better at your craft,” the 26-year MNPD officer said. “…There’s no room in prisons. Then they decide this person is less violent than this person. So let’s release them and put them on double secret probation. I hope they become good people. But we already know that’s not true.”

Alexandrow added that visitors “can have a great time in Nashville,” but like other major cities, tourists need to be extra careful and aware of their surroundings.

Fox News’ Stepheny Price and Bradford Betz contributed to this report.