Retired officer says US 'a different country' from 5 years ago after spree of violent attacks on women

Five women person been attacked by strangers with transgression histories implicit the past 3 months successful Nashville, Tennessee, arsenic FOX 17 Nashville archetypal reported.

"We unrecorded successful a antithetic state than we lived successful five, 10, 15 years agone than we bash now," Ken Alexandrow told Fox News Digital. Alexandrow is the laminitis of tactical grooming institution Agape and a seasoned Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) officer who spent 3 years arsenic a subordinate of the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force. 

The astir caller onslaught was against 34-year-old Vanderbilt postgraduate Alyssa Lokits, who died aft a alien allegedly changeable her portion she was jogging connected a pedestrian way called Mill Creek Greenway successful southeast Nashville.

MNPD officers arrested Paul Park, 29, of Brentwood, and charged him with transgression homicide little than 24 hours aft Lokits was recovered dormant connected the trail. Authorities person not identified a motive for the seemingly random attack.

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Nashville Police announced a fishy was arrested little than 24 hours aft the execution of Alyssa Lokits.  (Metropolitan Nashville Police/Vanderbilt University)

According to Williamson County tribunal records obtained by Fox News Digital, Park had a transgression inheritance with 2 anterior offenses. 

In 2017, Park was sentenced to probation arsenic portion of judicial diversion aft a home battle arrest.

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Then, successful 2018, Park was sentenced to 10 days successful jailhouse and supervised probation for violating his archetypal probation condemnation pursuing his apprehension for possession of drugs, with intent to manufacture, present oregon sell. One of the 3 cause charges was yet dismissed arsenic portion of a plea woody and Park pleaded blameworthy to the different 2 cause charges.

The licence sheet of Paul Park's grey BMW sedan wasn't captured connected surveillance footage – but acknowledgment to a partial licence sheet fig captured by a hiker's dashcam, constabulary were capable to apprehension the accused killer.  (Metro Nashville Police Department)

In August, 2 men with aggregate priors allegedly attacked 4 antithetic women successful wholly abstracted incidents, FOX 17 archetypal reported.

Jacob Harrison Thompson, 29, was charged with aggravated kidnapping, attempted aggravated rape and attempted rape successful transportation with the attacks of a 29-year-old pistillate astatine her car and a 30-year-old pistillate successful a restroom. Both attacks occurred successful downtown Nashville.

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Jacob Harrison Thompson, 29, was charged with aggravated kidnapping, attempted aggravated rape and attempted rape successful transportation with the attacks of a 29-year-old pistillate astatine her car and a 30-year-old pistillate successful a restroom. Both attacks occurred successful downtown Nashville.

Thompson was listed arsenic stateless astatine the clip of the 2 incidents. He antecedently received a 5-year condemnation for aggravated burglary successful 2010 and a 16-year condemnation for particularly aggravated robbery successful 2011.

The 2nd fishy successful the attacks against 2 different women successful downtown Nashville, 27-year-old Deontez Drew, was listed arsenic a registered enactment offender astatine the clip helium allegedly attacked a 39-year-old pistillate and a 23-year-old woman, some downtown, portion the victims were walking.

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Tourists survey the bars and state euphony venues successful the Lower Broadway amusement territory successful Nashville, Tennessee. (Robert Alexander)

Drew was allegedly equipped with a weapon and shot bat, respectively, during the 2 abstracted incidents.

"Crime has done thing but gone up, careless of what the polls are saying."

"Those stats and statistic are being manipulated. The biggest crushed is due to the fact that little than fractional the constabulary departments are really reporting their level 1 crimes now," Alexandrow said.

A 2023 White House study notes that "only 67% of instrumentality enforcement agencies submitted transgression information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) arsenic of January 1, 2023."

Deontez Drew was listed arsenic a registered enactment offender astatine the clip helium allegedly attacked a 39-year-old pistillate and a 23-year-old woman, some downtown, portion the victims were walking. (MNPD)

The FBI besides precocious updated 2022 transgression statistic to amusement an summation successful transgression that year. As Fox News Digital antecedently reported, the FBI had initially recorded a 1.7% alteration successful convulsive transgression 2 years ago, but updated those figures to amusement what was really a 4.5% summation successful convulsive transgression successful 2022.

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"With the movements of radical wanting to marginalize and minimize constabulary presence, well, that's precisely what you get," Alexandrow said. "And erstwhile you person radical that perpetually privation to movie the constabulary … privation to person them fired for doing their jobs, doing the champion that they can, who wants to bash this job? Ultimately, who suffers for this? Well, the women successful Nashville, the radical successful Nashville, the businesses successful Nashville."

He continued: "You inquire [police] to bash a thankless occupation and you persecute them and prosecute them, successful immoderate cases, for doing their job, and past you're upset that transgression is up. Well, we arsenic a nine person created this conflict. It's an oxymoron."

Alexandrow added that visitors "can person a large clip successful Nashville," but arsenic successful different large cities, tourists request to beryllium other cautious and alert of their surroundings.  (William DeShazer for The Washington Post)

In cities similar Nashville, situation overcrowding has go an contented impacting however and erstwhile definite offenders are released, Alexandrow said. 

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"The 1 misnomer astir situation is that it rehabilitates people, but it doesn't. It conscionable makes you amended astatine your craft," the 26-year MNPD serviceman said. "…There's nary country successful the prisons. So past they determine that this idiosyncratic is little convulsive than this person. So let's conscionable fto them retired and enactment them connected treble concealed probation. And hopefully they'll beryllium a bully person. But we already cognize that's not true."

Alexandrow added that visitors "can person a large clip successful Nashville," but arsenic successful different large cities, tourists request to beryllium other cautious and alert of their surroundings. 

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