Comments on Advance Indiana™: Star Story Discusses Record Homicide Rate With Blinders

Good observation Anon 1:15.

2016-01-04T23:54:53.242-05:00

Good observation Anon 1:15.

Until the really bad guys are put in jail and kept...

2016-01-04T17:07:17.857-05:00

Until the really bad guys are put in jail and kept there, not released after a fraction of their sentence is served, violence will continue to escalate. I think they think it's a vacation between 'jobs' to go to jail. Or maybe vocational training.

Right! Exactly. Take the guns and other equipmen...

2016-01-04T13:57:42.856-05:00

Right! Exactly. Take the guns and other equipment away from the cops. Equip them with pens and paper. When a crime occurs, dispatch them to it for the report. Cops should never be in a position to defend themselves or a third party. If a call comes in of an active forcible felony or other crime in progress, they should wait and let the citizen or business defend them/itself/selves. Criminals should no longer be afraid of the police or prosecution or any consequence. No more police activity. The cops are now on board with this notion after all the civil unrest and prosecution for them doing their jobs, it's time the we the people allow them to be responders only, not crime fighters.

This story is not about the Ferguson effect or eve...

2016-01-04T13:15:46.270-05:00

This story is not about the Ferguson effect or even Greg Ballard. It's about the revolving door at city hall and how a relatively small cadre of public officials uses central Indiana taxpayers to pad their resumes and pocketbooks. Troy Riggs left the city less than six months ago for the job at IUPUI. At the time, here's what he said:

"To me, it's an opportunity of a lifetime," Riggs said. "IUPUI offers tremendous opportunities to gather data and to explore solutions to a lot of the systemic issues that we're facing, not only as a city, but as a nation."

And yet less than six months later he bails again. He acts like a teenage girl chasing trends. This is not how a loyal public servant acts. This is a guy in it for himself and nothing greater. Anybody who thinks things will improve on his watch is dangerously naive.

Anon 11:49: Taking guns away from "just abou...

2016-01-04T11:43:22.826-05:00

Anon 11:49: Taking guns away from "just about all cops" is a touchdown for stupidity. It's a very small, criminal percentage of police who operate as you blanket mischaracterize; which in no way justifies the media promoted, full blown criminality of the Ferguson effect; for which several media outlets bear, yet to be adjudicated criminal & civil liability.

We need more police; good candidates of all ethnicity, for obvious reasons of efficacy & to counter superficial or aesthetic distractions of color, ignored by state branded theft-ists & their talk in a box narrative / square-ative.

Indy student, 10:41: No bull here. I believe that ...

2016-01-04T11:17:51.524-05:00

Indy student, 10:41: No bull here. I believe that my two decades on IPD/IMPD gives me a little street cred on what I speak. If you spend five minutes to research the " Ferguson effect", it has little to do with fear of being killed on duty, rather than losing your job and freedom. Given the current environment, why would I or any other officer do more than the miminum? Less exposure to people like 10:41 means less chance I will get jammed up.

10:41: Kill squads? Really? We are always taking applications .If you think you can handle it, strap up and go run a beat.

11:49: Bull. Cops caused the Ferguson backlash by...

2016-01-04T10:41:15.566-05:00

11:49:

Bull. Cops caused the Ferguson backlash by thinking themselves kill squads who get to roam the streets killing for sport.

America needs real police, and the first step in getting such a body of public servants is to take the guns away from just about all cops.

Police will continue to do less. Call it what you ...

2016-01-04T09:52:05.225-05:00

Police will continue to do less. Call it what you want. Like firefighters who only respond to fires, not go out and look for them. Police will respond for reports and no longer actively fight crime. They fear prosecution. They fear getting in trouble. They are second guessed and hated. Why would they be proactive? I say sit in your parking lots and take your dispatches. I don’t blame you. Actually, build policehouses like firehouses. Let them sleep, eat, watch tv, play video games, wash their cars, and workout. When crime happens, they’ll suit up and head out. Who wants chili?!

Gary (8:48) is oh so correct that the (oft-used, a...

2016-01-04T09:40:11.300-05:00

Gary (8:48) is oh so correct that the (oft-used, almost mystical/magical number) 150 police officers will never be hired and the tax monies will be used for 'something else'. Lying Joe Hogsett and his un-elected Co-Mayor Kathy Davis will continue this deception used by corrupt predecessor Gregory Ballard.

And Pete Boggs (8:52) is oh so correct that dismissing the Ferguson Effect is ridiculous and a good part of the reality of this Effect is a culpable, inciting media.

Indy Student: It's ridiculous to dismiss the ...

2016-01-04T08:52:55.287-05:00

Indy Student: It's ridiculous to dismiss the Ferguson effect; made too real by an inciting, culpable & therefore liable media. Is it your position that LEO's don't discuss these matters as relates to their risk?

We already passed another tax increase that took e...

2016-01-04T08:48:01.807-05:00

We already passed another tax increase that took effect this past year to pay for the 150 new police officers. Here's a hint. They will never be hired. Hogsett will sign a new contract with the police and firefighters providing them pay raises in exchange for their endorsements in this past election. There will be no money to pay for the additional officers after the pay raises and continued decimation of the tax base to support the downtown mafia's latest development projects are factored into the equation. A few years down the road the downtown mafia will signal the key players that we have a public safety crisis and the Star and the rest of the media will begin chiming in until the council passes another tax increase and the same scene plays out again.

More of the legacy of ex-mayor Greg Ballard, ex-Ma...

2016-01-04T08:22:18.240-05:00

More of the legacy of ex-mayor Greg Ballard, ex-Marion County Director tool Kyle Walker, and his wife ex-Ballard promoter/advisor Jennifer Hallowell Walker... three Republicans who were, IMHO, out for themselves only, the Marion County public safety and the stewardship of the "peoples' tax money and public property (as in now-gone free public parking spaces)" be damned.

Wait for the cry of 150 new officers coming soon f...

2016-01-04T07:43:35.140-05:00

Wait for the cry of 150 new officers coming soon from the new administration.

The "Ferguson effect" is such bull. LEO ...

2016-01-04T07:00:07.549-05:00

The "Ferguson effect" is such bull. LEO deaths are virtually at an all time low. There is no safer time to be a cop than now.

http://www.nleomf.org/facts/officer-fatalities-data/year.html

2014 had 117 deaths and 2013 had 107 deaths. You have to go back to 1959 to get to numbers approaching that.

I can tell you for a fact that the "Ferguson ...

2016-01-03T23:49:58.424-05:00

I can tell you for a fact that the "Ferguson effect" is partially responsible for the increase in crime here as well as nationwide. Until there is a pro police DOJ, a lot of officers are laying low and doing the minimum. The cons are much greater than the pros for doing proactive police work in the current environment.

the answer lies in a shiny new criminal justice ce...

2016-01-03T23:44:29.743-05:00

the answer lies in a shiny new criminal justice center.

Read an interesting article in a Chicago paper thi...

2016-01-03T23:43:03.442-05:00

Read an interesting article in a Chicago paper this past weekend about that city's own crime problems. Interesting that the one city they compared crime stats to was Indianapolis. While Chcago saw several hundred more homicides than Indy, it is a much larger city, and the homicide rate per 100,000 residents was a lot higher in Indy.