Comments on Advance Indiana™: Ballard: There's No Public Safety Funding Crisis

The FACT is, Ballard is more concerned about spend...

2013-08-14T06:23:52.639-05:00

The FACT is, Ballard is more concerned about spending money on soccer fields, hotels, parking garages, TIF's, bicycle paths, etc. than he is on public safety.

You can't run from facts, Mr. Mayor.

ask those who have seen riots in their neighborhoo...

2013-08-14T06:22:57.939-05:00

ask those who have seen riots in their neighborhoods from inner-city thug/murderers!

Marine Mayor Ballard can "fire back" all...

2013-08-13T22:02:26.661-05:00

Marine Mayor Ballard can "fire back" all he wants.
The FACTS are, crime is up. The perception of crime is up. Homicides are not nearly the only "crime" that occurs in this city.
Ask the hundreds of people who's homes and/or vehicles are violated by break-ins. Ask the people who have been robbed. Ask the people who have been physically assaulted. Ask the women who have been raped.
The FACT is, Ballard is more concerned about spending money on soccer fields, hotels, parking garages, TIF's, bicycle paths, etc. than he is on public safety.
You can't run from facts, Mr. Mayor.

There has been a lot of talk about the Public Safe...

2013-08-13T21:08:54.256-05:00

There has been a lot of talk about the Public Safety Budget recently, I have begun digging into the budget info on the City Of Indianapolis website. This is public information garnered from www.indygov.org All numbers are in MILLIONS. One of the big concerns has been the large growth of the DPS office. While these numbers could be of some concern, they pale compared to the information which will follow. The DHS has also become a growth industry in the budget. DPS DHS2006-12008-7.4 4.82009-2.8 5.12010-7.6 7.32011-4.8 13.4 Mayors Office-4.3 pretty consistently Reference, in 2011IMPD-201IFD-140MCSD-103 BackgroundOn December 31, 2006, the IPD ceased to exist. It was reformed into the IMPD, which was IPD combined with the law enforcement components of the MCSD. The MCSD remained to morph into the MCSO, which would remain as constituionaly mandated by the State of Indiana, to carry out the consitutional requirements of a county sheriff. Approximately 400 Merit Deputies left the MCSD to become part of the IMPD. IPD had around 1200 officers, thus the IMPD became a force of 1600. The IMPD handles patrol and investigation in the City of Indianapolis, which is Marion County, minus the excluded cities of Beech Grove, Lawrence, Speedway, etc. Now the budget numbers Agency 2004 2005 2006 2008 2009 2010 2011IPD/IMPD 116 120 107 187 187 208 201MCSD/MCSO 85 87 100 93 93 108 103 Obviously, the IMPD budget should grow, with the addition of 400 officers. I don't know what the average compensation would need to be with salary, insurance, benefits, pension, equipement, but let's conservatively guesstimate 90,000. 400 x 90,000= 36,000,000 This is obviously, less than the growth in the IMPD budget, maybe those number are too conservative. But where is the corresponding drop in the MCSD budget. In fact, there was a minimal drop followed by a growth exceeding prior budgets. Links to see for yourself: 2006 COI Budgethttp://www.indy.gov/eGov/City/OFM/Documents/Budget/2006/DPS.pdf 2006 Marion County Budgethttp://www.indy.gov/eGov/City/OFM/Documents/Budget/2006/CountyPublicSafety2006revisedAug12.pdf 2011 COI Budgethttp://www.indy.gov/eGov/City/OFM/Documents/Budget/2011/2011%20Council%20Adopted%20Budget%20Book.pdf

-did Ballard happen to also mention the moon is ma...

2013-08-13T18:47:10.087-05:00

-did Ballard happen to also mention the moon is made of cheese?

-I think the answer to the public safety budget cr...

2013-08-13T18:41:03.926-05:00

-I think the answer to the public safety budget crisis could be found by a forensic audit of all activities of Frank Straub as Public Safety Director, especially all of the irregularities with the Frank G. Straub Regional Operations Center boondagle at Eastgate!

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