Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting Debuts ''Dig''
| RADIO ONLINE | Thursday, December 5, 2019 |
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 Louisville Public Media |
The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting is launching "Dig," a new podcast. The investigation will also air as an hour-long special on Louisville Public Media's WFPL-FM on Friday, December 6 at 1pm and 9pm, and the first episode will be featured on the national public radio program "Reveal" on December 14.
"Dig" offers listeners a deeper dive into some of its best stories, and each season will focus on a different KyCIR investigation. The first season takes a close look at Louisville's system for investigating and prosecuting rape cases. Prosecutors get involved earlier in rape cases than other types of cases and, its reporting found, they declined to prosecute 40 percent of suspects accused of rape before they're even arrested. Overall, half of Louisville's reported rapes are closed, by exception, with no arrests.
In this season, a woman who reported a rape to Louisville Metro Police in January, 2018 walks listener through her case, from the police response that night to the investigation and ultimately, the prosecutor's decision her case wasn't strong enough to prosecute.
The first season was reported by KyCIR reporter Eleanor Klibanoff, edited by KyCIR managing editor Kate Howard and produced by WFPL podcast editor Laura Ellis.
