Here’s what’s going on in the headlines Friday… Metro police are investigating a shooting that occurred around 3:30 a.m. Friday morning in the 1700 block of Countryside Drive on the city’s far west side. The male victim suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the abdomen and is in critical condition at Eskenazi Hospital. The victim and the suspect who […]
IMPD to add more officers to street patrol The city’s plan to put more police officers on the streets will be unveiled today. Mayor Greg Ballard, Police Chief Rick Hite and Public Safety Director Troy Riggs want to shift about 100 police officers to help deal with an increase in violence. There were 16 homicides […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 14 Minutes ©2011 Baptist Ministers Alliance of Indianapolis. Famed author, professor, preacher and commentator Rev. Dr. Michael Eric Dyson visited Indianapolis Sunday to speak at the Rally 4 Change sponsored by the Indianapolis Baptist Ministers Alliance. Dyson, a Professor at Georgetown University, and commentator on CNN, MSNBC and NPR, spoke […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 13 Minutes ©2011 WTLC/Radio One. Democratic mayoral candidate Melina Kennedy unveiled specifics of her plan on public safety. Interviewed on Afternoons with Amos, Kennedy said she’d reassign fifty IMPD officers from “administrative duties” to street duty and hire fifty new officers to the force. A forceful Kennedy blasted Mayor Greg […]
Audio ©2009 WTLC/Radio One. Mayor Greg Ballard stopped by the Mozel Sanders Thanksgiving Dinner fundraising luncheon at Outback October 22nd. We talked with him about Convention Center privatization, his views on more anti-smoking regulations and more.
