City adds chief violence prevention officer in effort to reduce youth crimes

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11 thoughts on “City adds chief violence prevention officer in effort to reduce youth crimes

  1. How about locking up gang members instead of letting your Soros Prosecutor letting everyone walk.
    Curious that shootings go down when criminals are actually in jail instead of on our streets.
    While you’re at it, make IPS a safe environment, by sending the disruptive students to Boys Town.
    Common sense won’t prevail and the killings will sadly continue.
    Nice work Mayor Joe. Wash the blood off your booze stained hands and fiddle while Indy burns.

    1. +another 1. And add a thought that the parents need to be involved in the solution.

    2. Anthony S is correct to point out the need for parents to be involved (assuming they can be a positive influence). Unfortunately, it is frankly too late by the time the child is into their teen years – teaching acceptable behavior starts with toddlers. And, too many times, it is not parentS, but rather parent, making the situation even more difficult.

  2. Yep to all comments above!
    Fathers and two parents need to raise the kids, especially the boys, but the girls need it as much. It ain’t easy, but those first 18-20 years fly by quicker than one thinks, and it’s worth the effort!

  3. They definitely should spend a bunch more taxpayer dollars on thousands and thousands of little plastic “Peace in the streets. Stop the violence!” signs. Those worked great.

  4. Well, you can add his salary and benefits package to those of the “Peacemakers” etc. that the mayor has hired over the last several years. None of whom have done us any good.

  5. I see not even IBJ’s usual gaggle of Democrats showed up to defend this one. Must be having connectivity issues…

    This is a new level of virtue signaling stupidity and waste of tax money. Thank your Democrat friends, neighbors, and “journalists”

  6. What a joke. Maybe we should consider having a prosecutor’s office that asks for stiff bail amounts and actually prosecutes criminals so that violent felons aren’t roaming the streets at will. Maybe we should insist on judges that enforce the law and stand up for victims instead of constantly deferring to “rights” of criminals. Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars on soccer stadiums and other capital projects maybe we should do whatever it takes to fill the over 350 open positions on IMPD.

    Or we can keep on doing as this mayor and city council have been doing for years and watch the city decline further.

  7. Everyone here is SPOT ON.
    City efforts on this soccer stadium should be going toward Paul’s point about the IMPD officer shortage.
    I pity Marion County residents with the clown show mayor.

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