Comments on: Some Sobering Statistics

By: Darla

Darla — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:35:11 +0000

Buzzy Whitlow: The study was for the years 1996 to 2004, prior to the new administration, but I don’t care about that much.

I care where our training dollars are going and would like to see the money actually used to train people into jobs so they can get off of welfare and small businesses can have a better trained workforce to select from. Too much training dollars have been going to political insiders who did not train the people as required.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:02:56 +0000

Crime is up because The Democrat Machine loves crime! It creates fear…fear of lawlessness and being victimized, burglarized, raped! They love to instill fear in others….

…and then: “Tax and Spend” on a croney or adding patronage employees.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:05:54 +0000

Darla, Last time I checked the folks responsible for welfare is the State of Indiana. FSSA. Mitch Roob. Gov. Daniels’ man. If welfare rolls are swollen in Indiana, Roob has been the person in charge for three years. Why hasn’t he done his job?
Abdul, you are wrong on the Star’s homicide stats. The partisan blog you cite shows 67 homicides for the year so far. The Star,which is late in posting homicides shows 65. Last year’s stat, same time last year, was 85. If your blogger is correct that homicide is up 12% over last year. Than we would have had only 58 to 59 homicides this time last year. That’s not true and you and the blog you reference know it. Again, get your facts right..

By: Buzzy Whitlow

Buzzy Whitlow — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:49:44 +0000

Jason–that’s precisely where I got that colorful metaphor…excuse me, I have to go pack some more boxes, the movers come in just a few days.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:42:57 +0000

Agreed Buzzy, I think even the mayor himself referenced it in a speech about how wrong it is to raise taxes a few years ago. Whoops.

One other thing to remember about the homicide rate is that the Coroner’s office has been questionable in the past year or two when it came to performing autopsies in a timely manner and establishing a plausible manner of death. Another big variable is whether or not you include Lawrence, Speedway, Beech Grove, etc.

By: Buzzy Whitlow

Buzzy Whitlow — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:12:57 +0000

The average guy doesn’t put up with it, he takes his tax money and moves out of the county. This reduces tax revenue, which causes Bart and his ilk to raise taxes again, which makes more taxpayers leave. Viola! The city begins its death spiral into a black hole, from which it will likely never emerge. For details, see Newark and Detroit.

By: abdul

abdul — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:49:45 +0000

the star includes suicides and police action shootings. this is the pure murder rate.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:39:25 +0000

You better check your partisan blog sources. According to the Indy Star’s crime database, number of homicides in 2006 Jan 1-July 29 was 87. The link you had says number of homicides in Indy this year to date is 67. That’s not a 12%increase, but a DECLINE of 20 or 23%. The homicide decline has been going on since April of this year. If you’re going to cite stats from others, not stats you research yourself, use ACCURATE data sources. Not folks trying to make a case where none exists.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:51:00 +0000

My wife and I were urban pioneers and settled into a very nice home on the near eastside.
Due to the number of homes now on the market we have elected to lease our place out rather than sell it at a loss. We’ll still be money ahead even with our 67% property tax increase.
We’ll retire and move into the cottage at the lake in NY and be done with Indianapolis and Indiana.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:37:40 +0000

Can we get more police? Can we tell the Prosecutor to file the cases and send criminals to prison?

Can we expand the jail and make room for ALL CRIMINALS?

I’d gladly pay more TAX if the Democrats would put the money into police, prosecution, and jails & prisons!!!!!!!!!!!

But, Bart Lies.