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Is this a preemptive move to get ahead of the crime that the downtown casino will bring?
Young is an attorney. He should just run for the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office himself. I’m tired of lazy Republicans who can’t win a campaign against an easily beatable Ryan Mears.
Republicans introduce stricter gun laws.
That won’t happen especially in an election year.
It is a proven fact that permitless carry will cause a 10% rise in gun violence over the course of few years. I think the recent Fishers bar shooting is an example of this phenomenon.
The proposed solution is not to cut down on the availability of guns, but to ban guns in bars….
Dan, what is the source for your “proven fact”?
More importantly, share your plan, including cost and enforcement, for “banning guns in bars”.
I assume “bars” means Texas Roadhouse, virtually any restaurant or brewery with a bar area, but if not please share your definition
This proposed legislation has less chance of making it to the statehouse floor for a vote than full recreational marijuana bills.
Dan, I am unaware of any study the proves your “Fact”. Please direct me.
A mayor and council who do not even have the will and wherewithal to clean up the drug-dealing scene at the front door of city hall should not be surprised at this proposal. What do they do in response to the takeover of our common spaces by bums and addicts? They pass a Homeless Bill of Rights and give another million to CHIP.
Here’s a typical CHIP staff bio: “Introvert. Leftie. Caffeine-powered. Probably anxious. Often holding a grudge from game night. Always on Spotify. Amateur plant parent. Professional nap taker.”
So so relieved to have such heavy hitters working on our city’s most intractable problems.
Richard, sorry to see you still are grappling with mommy and daddy issues, but stop projecting your problems out on to others.
The typical staff bio at CHIP is made up of seasoned professionals who earned advanced degrees to do something productive with their lives instead of crying on the internet about imaginary scenarios.
There used to be a wonderful (if somewhat chilly) outdoors waiting for you. Try taking a break from being online,
The only thing worse than the people you’re complaining about are the Marion County Republicans who are too cowardly to actually attempt to solve the problems by running for local office.
Freeman, Ireland, Young, Carrasco. All lawyers. Not a one of them competent enough to run a campaign to win an election before the voters of Indianapolis. Carrasco’s campaign was weak, ineffective, and seemed designed solely to be a loyalty test to make her worthy of being appointed to office.
Heck, do you see them out there asking for Indianapolis to get additional state funding to have 2000 additional jail cells to facilitate locking up all of the homeless people as you suggest? Of course not, because they are not serious politicians. They convince you that they’re going to solve the problems and there will be no cost to you.
Richard would love living in China, Russia, or North Korea
Anarcho-tyranny is a tried and true strategy in creating justification for the authoritarianism that exists in China, North Korea, Russia, Cuba, or Venezuela.
If CHIP is filled with “seasoned professionals who earned advanced degrees to do something productive”, why do they have so little to show for it? The Monument Circle is a cesspit now, and it looked greater under Ballard. It’s like night and day.
Still waiting on your solutions, Lauren. Maybe it’s the Cicero / Lonsdale model of turning the poor into a profit center.
There’s nothing stopping the state from bringing back mental health facilities and sending people with mental illness there for treatment … except our own cheapness.
I doubt it. These legislators know that it’s easier to criticize rather than find and fund really solutions.
So the legislation proposes two prosecutors for Marion County w/o any increase in funding? That’s a recipe for disaster (or to blame the other side when it fails).
How about using some of the budget surplus or that 0.01% reduction (for 2027) in the state income tax rate (that no one will notice) to properly fund these functions?
why doesn’t the state start with exempting Marion County from open carry laws?
Great idea!!!
I think that is a GREAT idea, unless we want the national guard in our city soon.
According to Area Vibes, Indianapolis has a total crime rate of 43.82 per 1,000 residents, a staggering 89% higher than the national average.This might seem like a bunch of numbers, but here’s what it means: if you live in Indianapolis, your chances of falling victim to a violent crime are 1 in 100. For property crime, that number is 1 in 30.
To put it in perspective, the national median for violent crime is only 4 per 1,000 people. For the state of Indiana overall, your odds are 1 in 327 for violent crimes and 1 in 65 for property crimes. The difference is stark.
Either the Marion County Prosecutor can get it together and prosecute crimes, or someone else should step in.
Maybe one day you’ll understand that policing and prosecutions don’t work until AFTER a crime is convicted and that if you really want lower crime, you’ll look to the social policies of high tax, high trust countries
Statistics of indianapolis are not the same as downtown region (where this is being proposed) which has a much lower crime rate. This is misleading post about the safety of the downtown of our great city. Typical fox news like propaganda of big cities being war zones with armies of homeless people and substance abusers waiting to attack “innocent” suburban or rural white conservatives (who act like they are so “tough” and “real men” but are projecting like insecure pubescent teens with daddy issues).
There were more murders in Nora than the Mile Square in 2025.
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2025/01/03/indianapolis-homicide-tracker-2025-shootings-stabbings-trauma/76448808007/
That’s a BS fake stat. Crime in the city is down and Chief Bailey has the data to back it up.
I’m tired of hearing people who don’t live in the city whine about how scary Indianapolis is. Please stay in your suburbs and and keep your Fox News views to yourself.
LMAO. What a joke this comment is. I cant tell if this is satire or serious. If taken at face value, its absolutely laughable. Tell me that you stormed the capital without telling me you stormed the capital.
I can tell you this, after working in downtown Indy for over 40 years, downtown is different and not for the better. The crime and homeless issue is horrible and does seem to be ignored. Putting homeless people’s rights over property owners and investors rights says it all!
…and well get off your front porch by noon, ok?
There were murders in Whitestown and Fishers recently. I think it is high time to send the National Guard into Boone and Hamilton counties.
Give me a break, only 4% of the crime in Indianapolis takes place downtown. The super majority repubs and those in the burbs can’t stand the fact that the Crown Jewel city of the Indiana is Indianapolis. And of equal significance has a Dem mayor and majority city-county council. We host more major sporting events per capita than any other city in the country. And the only significant crime related event in this regard was by a member of a visiting Fox Sports broadcast team.