Keep it Classy, Indy

[jwamplerusa]

I still think we need to bring back indigent farms for the homeless, with a co-located mental facility.

Due process, no living on the streets, if you can't provide adequate housing for yourself you can either move on or move to the indigent farm and help work for your sustenance.

The mentally ill can get assistance, those that are quasi-productive can assist on the farm.

Then prisons and jails need to again become something more than three hots a cot and a gym.

I was watching a documentary about Nelson Mandela's first term as president of South Africa. At one point they showed the prison island where he had been sent, along with other criminal prisoners and his class of political prisoner. Quite literally turn big rocks in Little rocks all day long. That is not cruel and unusual! It's simply a method of keeping individuals busy who are incarcerated for their assaults upon society. Cruel and unusual is having to live on the edge working 12 or 14-hour days 6 or 7 days a week trying to keep your kids in food and a roof over their head without any government handouts. Something that all too many Americans do everyday without committing crime and preying upon their fellow citizens.

 

[gregr]

My money will be spent outside the 465 loop.

IMPD investigates gunfire inside Castleton Square Mall, 1 injured

It happened just after 7 p.m. Friday evening at the mall on East 82nd Street.

www.wthr.com

 

[BehindBlueI's]

What exactly is a gun liason?

It's an officer who's been through a small block of evidence technician training that's specific to recovering guns. How to swab for DNA, catalog it properly, etc. It's not a full time position, just something street officers can be trained and equipped to do as needed. Our shift has a couple.

 

[gregr]

I still think we need to bring back indigent farms for the homeless, with a co-located mental facility.

Due process, no living on the streets, if you can't provide adequate housing for yourself you can either move on or move to the indigent farm and help work for your sustenance.

The mentally ill can get assistance, those that are quasi-productive can assist on the farm.

Then prisons and jails need to again become something more than three hots a cot and a gym.

I was watching a documentary about Nelson Mandela's first term as president of South Africa. At one point they showed the prison island where he had been sent, along with other criminal prisoners and his class of political prisoner. Quite literally turn big rocks in Little rocks all day long. That is not cruel and unusual! It's simply a method of keeping individuals busy who are incarcerated for their assaults upon society. Cruel and unusual is having to live on the edge working 12 or 14-hour days 6 or 7 days a week trying to keep your kids in food and a roof over their head without any government handouts. Something that all too many Americans do everyday without committing crime and preying upon their fellow citizens.

I`ll never forget watching a news clip of Nelson Mandela, wide eyes and nearly frothing at the mouth, bashing bushie the second, going on about what an international criminal he was. Make no mistake, I`m not a fan of either of the bushes, but I`m even less a fan of Nelson Mandela.

 

[gregr]

ISP warning of increase in road rage shootings around Indianapolis

So far this year, troopers have investigated 30 incidents of gunfire on Indianapolis interstates.

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[BigRed]

IMPD investigates gunfire inside Castleton Square Mall, 1 injured

It happened just after 7 p.m. Friday evening at the mall on East 82nd Street.

www.wthr.com

Sounds like another good kid just starting to turn his life around.

 

[Magyars]

IMPD investigates gunfire inside Castleton Square Mall, 1 injured

It happened just after 7 p.m. Friday evening at the mall on East 82nd Street.

www.wthr.com

Castleton and Indianapolis are vastly different when it comes to crime stats.

 

[CallSign Snafu]

I think Indianapolis might be "classier" if Judges were not simply picked by a judicial committee and then put on the ballot later as a retain or do not retain. I think if you're an attorney and you want to throw your hat in the ring you should be able to go downtown do the campaign requirements hustle and either primary current judges or run in opposition. That might make them suddenly feel a little more accountable to the outcomes that their efforts are helping to produce. Granted, that won't fix the problem with the prosecutor seeking harsher sentences (or really lack of that) against people who hurt others and commit property crimes.

 

[gregr]

2 shot, 1 in custody after incident at Lafayette Square Mall

One person is in critical condition and another is in critical but stable condition after an incident at Lafayette Square Mall Sunday.

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The usual suspects no doubt

 

[KellyinAvon]

2 shot, 1 in custody after incident at Lafayette Square Mall

One person is in critical condition and another is in critical but stable condition after an incident at Lafayette Square Mall Sunday.

www.wthr.com

The usual suspects no doubt

Frank and his team didn't have far to travel...

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

Frank and his team didn't have far to travel...

That happened before I got to work. I'm sure it will happen again before I go home.

 

[rhamersley]

Frank and his team didn't have far to travel...

Weird how things can change in one lifetime. Used to go there all the time as a kid because it was the westside’s “local” mall. Never felt unsafe. Go away to college and come back, it’s the frickin Wild West.

 

[KMaC]

Is the mall still open or did this happen in the parking lot?

 

[KellyinAvon]

That happened before I got to work. I'm sure it will happen again before I go home.

Be careful out there. Not all the calls will be "the drunk guy who held onto the firework too long" tonight. Maybe here in Avon, but not where you are.

 

[rooster]

I think Indianapolis might be "classier" if Judges were not simply picked by a judicial committee and then put on the ballot later as a retain or do not retain. I think if you're an attorney and you want to throw your hat in the ring you should be able to go downtown do the campaign requirements hustle and either primary current judges or run in opposition. That might make them suddenly feel a little more accountable to the outcomes that their efforts are helping to produce. Granted, that won't fix the problem with the prosecutor seeking harsher sentences (or really lack of that) against people who hurt others and commit property crimes.

The system is broken. Doesn’t matter how good of a job the detectives do catching them after the fact and it definitely not up to street cops to prevent since they are so short staffed it’s ridiculous.

I remember listening to scanner traffic last year when I was doing armed security during the riots. multiple car chases going on at the same time, shots fired calls like mad and they didn’t have enough officers to even prioritize to those. I came to the conclusion that inside 465 after dark you are on your own.

not any fault of frank, BBI or any other leo. They don’t have enough officers or resources to respond to crimes in progress let alone prevent crime.

the system is broken

 

[rhamersley]

The system is broken. Doesn’t matter how good of a job the detectives do catching them after the fact and it definitely not up to street cops to prevent since they are so short staffed it’s ridiculous.

I remember listening to scanner traffic last year when I was doing armed security during the riots. multiple car chases going on at the same time, shots fired calls like mad and they didn’t have enough officers to even prioritize to those. I came to the conclusion that inside 465 after dark you are on your own.

not any fault of frank, BBI or any other leo. They don’t have enough officers or resources to respond to crimes in progress let alone prevent crime.

the system is broken

I listen to the Indy police scanner quite regularly. It’s amazing how many calls are to the Cloverleaf apartments. My parents lived in the edition attached to those until 15 years ago, and my wife and I lived in the neighborhood until 96. We all dodged almost a literal bullet by moving out just in time.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

Is the mall still open or did this happen in the parking lot?

There are a few stores still open in the mall, but it happened in the parking lot.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

Be careful out there. Not all the calls will be "the drunk guy who held onto the firework too long" tonight. Maybe here in Avon, but not where you are.

Thanks. It has been a bunch of BS calls so far, but me and my crew are babysitting the MLK crowd for now. The beat cars are busy.

 

[IndyDave1776]

That happened before I got to work. I'm sure it will happen again before I go home.

Be careful and have a safe shift.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

Be careful and have a safe shift.

Thanks.