War Zone in The Circle City

Indiana Barrister -

What you say if I asked you to name a capital where people are shot dead everyday and the government can't quite seem to get a handle on things? What you say? Baghdad? No, the answer is Indianapolis.

There have been six murders in the past 24 hours. And 10 total murders in the past four days. Indy could go through August 10 without another murder and still have a murder for everyday of the month.

City officials remain determined to win the war on crime, but I wonder if this one of those times when the best hope is containment not victory. Back in May I wrote about the disturbing trend in rising crime. I saw stats that showed crime rising in January and February. I was scary because if there were two months where homicides should have dropped, were those two. I figured if crime was going to be that bad in the winter, God only knows how bad it was going to be this summer. Now we know.
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