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Memorial Day is the “official” start of summer and for Marion County, it may also be the official start of the next crime wave. As the Mayor, Sheriff and other elected and appointed officials look for ways to deal with city’s crime problem, they may want to start within the ranks of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and do some more hiring. According to documents, accidentally sent out by e-mail, IMPD faces an officer shortage of crisis proportion.
Depending on how you count the bodies, IMPD currently has anywhere between 128 to 140 street patrol officer vacancies. As of May 20, IMPD has 1,248 allotted patrol officer positions, but only 1,109 are filled. IMPD has a total of 177 vacancies, 80 percent are street officers. Most of the vacancies are in the Department’s northwest district, which has 38 vacancies. The north district has 11 vacancies. Northeast district has 24 vacancies. There is one vacancy in the Downtown district. The southeast district has 19 vacancies. And the southwest district has 35 vacancies.
What makes this information so disturbing is that IMPD may loose up 80 experienced officers due to retirement later this year, but only about 60 new recruits will come through the current class. Add on the fact Marion County Sheriff Frank Anderson has said in the past, he’s needed 250 more officers to effectively patrol Marion County. So to add this all up, a city facing its most dramatic increases in crime in recent memory is potentially short more than 400 officers.
Are you surprised that crime seems out of control? You shouldn’t be anymore.
May 27th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
We can’t hire police officers because there is no money. Jim Ursay and the Simon brothers need it more, and the CCC doesn’t want to share any of their Pea Shake monies with public safety.
Keep up the good work law enforcement officers.
Love
Bart peterson
May 27th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
But more street lights, new side walks, vicious dog laws and a ban on violent video games will mean we don’t need more officers! These ‘brilliant’ ideas, brought to you by one Mayor McChese, will solve all crime problems that are going to happen. (not)
May 27th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Proof is in the pudding. Post the email so we can view it. I tend to disagree with your assessment. IMPD is from the top down a poorly managed and supervised operation. Most supervisors have been GIVEN (not earned) there position on the ability of friendships, affirmative action or ones ability to kiss butt and not there ability to lead, supervise or manage. Supervisors do not supervise, officers dont work. Look at the number of arrests, field contacts, look at the statistics. You will find a gross lack of productivity. IMPD can have 1200, 1500 or 2200 officers. Doesn’t matter. Look what at what a few 300 Spartans did at the the Battle of Thermopylae. If there were 300 motivated officers on IMPD, there would be no crime. Sorry Abdul, I am in disagreement with you.
May 27th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
Really,
You can disagree all you want. I will have the files posted by Tuesday afternoon over at http://www.wxnt.com. so you can see for yourself. And no offense, but 300 was a movie. This is real life.
Abdul
May 27th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Sorry, I wrote “really” in the wrong box.
Abdul
May 28th, 2007 at 4:59 am
Hey Really:
If you remember the battle, the Spartans got their asses kicked!
May 28th, 2007 at 4:59 am
Hey Really:
If you remember the battle, the Spartans got their asses kicked!
May 28th, 2007 at 6:39 am
This city is f*cked
May 28th, 2007 at 7:22 am
The Sheriff Stated that he needed over 900 new Deputies to effectively patrol the former MCSD area, but he would take 250 right now.
There is a big difference in the two numbers.
May 28th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Hey Xerx, that movie must be clouding your memory.
Sure we lost, but we held you off long enough for the rest of the country to mobilize and kick your sorry asses out. We never expected to defeat you at Thermopylae. We knew our fate going in. We did our part, and in the end you lost.
Get over it.
May 28th, 2007 at 8:07 am
Not only is the street lacking manpower but so are other areas of the Department. Talley-Sanders and her midget Reno are diminishing the number of officers who are hiring, backgrounding and instructing new officers. We will see the quality of new hirers diminish more and more. They are removing investigators and placing them on the street. Who will investigate our ever increasing number of crimes. Solving crimes will soon be a thing of the past. It will be at least five years before this mess begins to smooth out and by that time we will have unqualified officers and a huge amount of unsolved crimes. Thanks to Bart and the Democrats. Abdul, don’t let them fool you when they remove the open positions from the manning table and pretend that they never existed.
May 28th, 2007 at 8:24 am
The lack of officers is one factor, but the lack of social skills is another. How can people shoot and kill each other in such large numbers. This is a social problem more than a police numbers problem. Until people start raising children in normal family situations, this will only get worse. This is the flipside to the many years of welfare and the government’s insistance that the father not be allowed in the home. LBJ’s war on welfare was really a war on our society!
May 28th, 2007 at 8:40 am
Dear Really,
I wish people like you could live and work in a cop’s shoes for one day. This isn’t 3,000 years ago when if you thought someone was guilty you could run them through with your spear. If that were the case believe me the officers in this city would be on top of crime and we would not be in this position…instead we have to handle them with care and respect and ensure that they are treated with kit gloves and then see them 8 hours later after they have been booked and released at the APC. And generally they are standing on the same street corner doing the same thing. And if you really look at the stats you’ll see how hard officers do work.
May 28th, 2007 at 11:45 am
IT’S JUST A BAD SYSTEM ALL AROUND… TOO MANY RIGHTS GIVEN TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT EARNED THEM.
May 28th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Abdul, I thank you for investigating every lead you get before posting and commenting. Your care in assuring the truth is posted makes me trust you. Will you run for mayor? I don’t care if you are a Dem, Repub, or Lib. Your ability to use common sense trumps any politicians we have had in recent decades!! I would vote for you in a heartbeat!!
May 28th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
“Kelly” must be some sort of foreigner — in America we have inalienable rights and our Constitution. Kings and dictators in other countries grant rights to their subjects — here in the USA citizens have rights at birth!
May 28th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
As a retired ipd officer the merger is a complete clusterf—. Frank Anderson is a complete moron and chief Spears never was a real police officer. Mayor Peterson does not give a damn.The fop is not and never was a union merely a social club. What a cruel joke impd is on the citizens of indy.
May 28th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Just like IndyUndercover won’t post the name of the detective in the case of Heather Norris, Abdul won’t post the e mail because I won’t let him. I own him just like I own the cops in this city.
May 28th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Wilson will be the one to point out ALL the rights you are born with.
The right to NOT be offended, the right to take what is not yours,the right to free money from the gubement, the right to vote as many times as you like in each election,
Get a grip Wilson. With Peterson at the helm, we only have the rights the Dems want us to have!!
May 28th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Sorry “Bart.” Don’t insult the Mayor by pretending to be him. It’s not an e-mail but documents which show IMPD’s vacancies. Give me your e-mail address and I’ll be happy to send you a copy. Put up or get off my blog.
Abdul
May 28th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
you have my e mail Abdul. Now it’s you turn to put up!
And it wasn’t an insult to the mayor, it was an insult to me!
May 28th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
“Bart”
Resend me your e-mail at abdul@newstalk1430.com. Put up or shut up dude.
Abdul
May 28th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Sent it Abdul. I never figured you for a Peterson Fan.
May 28th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
I’m for what’s right and what’s fair, regardless of who is in charge.
May 28th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
“SuperCop” (if you are indeed a LEO) - didnt you take an oath to support and defend the U.S. Constitution? We are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights — our Constitution protects them. I take our American rights seriously — it’s a pity you seem to ridicule our freedoms…
May 29th, 2007 at 3:45 am
But Abdul DID NOT send what he said he would.
I suppose it is all just hear-say propaganda!
May 29th, 2007 at 4:17 am
I just sent you the information. You need to be more patient. This is why you people have so many problems in this town. You’re so quick to rush into things and you don’t think first. This is why God sent me here, to deliver you all from ignorance and into enlightenment.
May 29th, 2007 at 5:58 am
ignornance ???
At least us Naptowners use our spell-checkers before posting!
Normally a typo-flame would be wrong but your amusingly self-boasting comment opened you up for it…
May 29th, 2007 at 6:24 am
“–it’s a pity you seem to ridicule our freedoms…” Why not Wilson? If Monroe Gray doesn’t have to stand for the pledge? Besides, freedom of speech - you remember that one - is one of our rights too.