Comments on: Take a Drive

By: sobersteve

sobersteve — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 01:20:28 +0000

Great Idea Abdul, take a drive and check out the city.
I hear that is what Mike Hobbs was doing the other night. Look where he ended up.

By: Uno

Uno — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 01:12:29 +0000

Abdul, Stumbled across this little 263 page document. Funny, if these strategies were sooo successful as it claims, then why just 2 short years after its publication did murder and gun crimes increase dramatically. Hmmm. FYI. Most everyone mentioned in this article have become very rich selling their snake oil. Little help it does for the 15yr old rape victim who was raped and badly beaten downtown Sat night Sunday morning.

The author(s) shown below used Federal funds provided by the U.S.
Department of Justice and prepared the following final report:
Document Title: Strategic Approaches to Reducing Firearms
Violence: Final Report on the Indianapolis
Violence Reduction Partnership
Author(s): Edmund F. McGarrell ; Steven Chermak

http://web.appa-net.org/PSN/pdfs/McGarrellChermakFinalIndyReport.pdf

By: AntiWilson46201

AntiWilson46201 — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 01:10:40 +0000

Wilson,

You can’t prosecute anyone if there are no cops to arrest them! Idiot!

By: Really

Really — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:04:59 +0000

Don’t believe me about the victim Bryant Davis being convicted for felony handgun violatons???

Go to the Indiana Dept of Correction website. Select offender locator. Type in the name of the victim. That is how I know and can back it up with actual documentation.

By: Wilson46201

Wilson46201 — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:04:40 +0000

Ask Carl Brizzi! In this current “Crime-Gone-Wild” election year hysteria, the Republican County Prosecutor has been strangely silent…

By: Really

Really — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:01:29 +0000

The most recent homicide victim (Bryant Davis) at the Ritz Lounge (which is across the street from a pea shake house) was just convicted for FELONY handgun violations last April, 2006. Why was he out of prison????

By: Pro Cynic

Pro Cynic — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 17:24:45 +0000

People are moving out of Indianapolis primarily because of crime. Crime is also an issue in discouraging companies to locate here — they want to go where they can attract workers. No one wants to move someplace where there is too much crime, and no one wants to move to Indiana even without the crime — Indiana hemorrhages college graduates regularly as it is because of the backwards culture.

But Indianpolis is no longer about high-paying jobs. It is about conventions. That is it. Everything this city does is to attract conventions. Everything outside the Mile Square can rot and fall down for all they care — none of the all-important convention visitors will see that.

And if you want to talk zoning with respect to pea shake houses, you also have to talk about it with respect to 42nd and Post, one of the worst neighborhoods in the city, but a man-made disaster in that someone thought it was OK to put approximately 200 apartment complexes around one intersection. The entire far-Eastside lives in fear of the wretched hive of scum and villainy that has arisen around 42nd and Post and infects the surrounding areas. You take out some of those apartment complexes and you might be able to start cleaning it up.

By: Martha

Martha — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 12:51:02 +0000

My mom lives in Center Twp, and has for 55 years. She cannot afford to move and I cannot afford to move her. Besides she will not move because this is HER home. She lives off of Washington and State street. She has been shot at and her neighbor sitting next to her was shot. I know the main problem is drugs and hookers. For every place the police shut down 2 open up. If the powers of this city would just “get it” and see that the drugs are eating up the life as we know it. The slum landlords who are usually Attys. doctors etc… would not rent to the trash maybe some parts of the city could survive. Also if the city would fine these landlords for trash, boarded up houses etc… there could be enough money to invest back into the neighborhood or fund more police. Also the judicial system needs to reinvent it’s self and come up with a solid plan to keep the criminals behind longer.

By: Really

Really — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:54:59 +0000

Abdul, Thanks for taking the time to simply drive around Indy neigborhoods. Unfortunately, our elected officials and policy makers have not other than the photo opt of a sidewalk repair, new lighting or the scene of a recent homicide. Unfortunately, this beautiful city of warmth has been slowly destroyed over the last 20 years and unfortunately, will take 40 years to repair the community fabric which many call home. Till then, there will be (and expect) denial in the face of truth and harm in the way of hope by those entrusted.

By: Eastside Survivor

Eastside Survivor — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:17:43 +0000

Abdul,
What you are seeing is what’s left of a city that has lost 156,000 residents since 1969. These people moved out of the old, pre-unigov, city limits of Indianapolis and took the life blood of the city with them. The old city limits are now the current boundaries for IPS. Do you think that 156,000 people moved out for the hell of it? Do you not realize what happened to these neighborhoods once the money, jobs and businesses left? Look no further than Detroit Abdul for an answer as to where the “old city of Indianapolis” has been heading for the last 40 years. It IS NOT going to get fixed. The small Mile Square area that the city has pumped $5 billion into may survive but even that is doubtful. The neighborhoods you drove thru which our leaders won’t, will be urban prairies in sight of 15 to 20 years. Those houses will be gone, replaced by nothing but wasteland and staggering crime levels.

Do you have any conception of just how many 156,000 people leaving the central core of a city is? It’s like every man, woman and child leaving the present Indiana cities of South Bend, Columbus and Connersville all in one day like they never existed. That’s what has happened to Indianapolis. What you drove thru is just the tip of the iceberg of what’s left in the old city limits of this city and it’s not going to get better. It can’t. It’s not possible. THERE ARE NO LONGER ANY LIVING WAGE JOBS LEFT FOR THESE PEOPLE IN THESE NEIGHBORHOODS TO GO TO, THEY’RE GONE AND THEY AREN’T COMING BACK! EVER!

The Indianapolis Public School District boundaries are the old city limits of Indianapolis, the REAL city of Indianapolis, not the Unigov Indianapolis. In IPS today there are 68% blacks enrolled, 12% hispanic and the rest are white and other. Tell me, are they going to get good jobs like their grandfathers or great-grandfathers had? Why should they graduate from high school when a high school diploma is not going to get them any better job than the drop out gets. Hell, where are all the college grads going to get work? And who are the white employers going to hire when they have a choice beween a black, hispanic or a white? They are going to hire the white of the hispanic. Considering that nearly 70% of current students in IPS are black then just what kind of a future do they have in this city? The have the same future or worse than their mother or fathers had.

I would like to see a glimmer of hope but it’s not going to happen. The neighborhoods are dying almost as if they were meant to die. Unfortunately, people dying on the streets in those neighborhoods too. It will not end, ever.