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official misconduct and officia oppression. there are facing a minimum of 6 years behind bars. four of the five cops were released on bond this morning. here is what police are telling us. under an re seven, ronna mc daniel nichols vehicle was pulled over for reckless driving . the police chief says there was a physical altercation in the cops tried. >> nichols out of the car. pepper spray was deployed, and nichols took off on foot. there was a foot pursuit, and officers then apprehended him a a different location and anothe confrontation occurred. nichols was arrested. the police ch...

>> it makes it difficult to investigate crimes that we want to investigate. we had a full-time traffic unit, we had a full-time narcotics unit, we had a full-time k-9 unit, all three of those were folded back into patrol. >> reporter: city leaders are betting that pumping money into community-based groups like the pioc part of the office of violence prevention will take some of the burden off the police force. >> we have clearly a gun violence problem in our community, we have a homicide problem in our community and the community should expect that we will have adequate resources, that's the t...

>> and so far this year the louisville metro police department reports 125 murders, 118 of those people were shot to death. now, the city is on pace to have more homicides than the past two years combined. nbc news reporter dion hampton taking a deep dive into these startling statistics and joins us with a breakdown. good to see you, man and you did a lot of research into all of this. what is happening louisville? >> louisville is a city that is under siege, quite frankly. they have a homicide problem. like you mentioned there were 125 homicides as of august 15th, and this is a city that didn'...

Past two years combined. joining us with a break joun, i know, my friend, you did a lot of research for this story. what stands out most to you? >> well, okay, so louisville is a city that's under siege. they have a homicide problem. they broke their homicide record last year by a very wide margin. they're on pace to do it again. and i would say that 55% of the murders this year have gone unsolved. >> that is just extraordinary. let me ask you, isn't the fbi sending in agents? they're going to help with louisville police department deal with this. that seems most unusual. >> somebody has to do...

Hospitals, pay organizers, get people mental health care and overall healthcare employment, etc. we should support communities, not throw them away. jacqui: what you make of that? >> the way to deal with the covered epidemic is close hospitals and not count how many people die that way you don't have an epidemic just like we have an epidemic in homicide, if you don't hold people accountable, we don't have a homicide problem, it's ludicrously but not to be unexpected. jacqui: thank you very much for discussing this sensitive topic with us. griff: the third leg of horseracing triple crown set fo...