Posts in category crime

By Abdul-Hakim Shabazz With the city of Indianapolis starting off the year on track for its worse murder rate in history and local lawmakers still …

by Abdul-Hakim Shabazz Assuming no one else is murdered in the next few days, Indianapolis is on track for 231 murders by the end of …

Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett, City-County Councilors Vop Osili and Leroy Robinson, along with IMPD command staff respond to the city’s latest murders which left four …

Legislation is moving through the Indiana General Assembly that would limit a prosecutor’s ability to decline to file charges in a criminal case. Republican State …

by Abdul-Hakim Shabazz Although Indianapolis saw an overall drop in its criminal homicide rate in 2019, the number of juvenile murder victims doubled.  That’s just …

The head of the Indianapolis Fraternal Order of Police is asking Indiana lawmakers for help in the city’s fight against rising crime and violence. Rick …

by Abdul-Hakim Shabazz Growing up in Chicago, there was a journalist by the name of Lu Palmer.  He was the quintessential activist who was instrumental …

We just completed our annual end of year informal political survey with our Indy Politics audiences.  We did things a little differently this year and …

Indy Politics sits down with Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears who’s been on the job for two months. We discuss the city’s murder rate, his …

(This column originally ran in February 2013.  However, in the wake of the recent incident at Circle Center Mall, we felt it was appropriate to …