Get In the Know With Kim’s Tuesday News & Headlines Officials in Indianapolis are preparing for a grand jury decision in Ferguson, Missouri keeping in lockstep with most urban areas in the nation. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) is on standby in case this decision sparks trouble in the city. The Ten Point Coalition is also […]
Get In the Know With Kim’s Monday News & Headlines Good morning to you and everyone on this frosty Monday in Indianapolis. The Department of Public Works says crews have been out since yesterday treating and plowing the roads. Up to four inches was expected through Monday morning. A real-time map of what streets are being cleared and […]
The Indianapolis Metro Police Department and the Fraternal Order of Police are hosting a local celebration Friday on Monument Circle called a “Day of Unity’. Organizers say this event is a way for the public and police officers to say thank you to each other. The department’s fallen officers will also be remembered, as will the […]
In a week when America and the world was looking at one city’s police department that didn’t reach out and communicate to its community, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department was reaching out to the community in a unique way. Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Chief Rick Hite got out […]
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 […]
Here’s What’s Going on in the Headlines this unseasonably cool Tuesday in the city… IMPD is encouraging the public to become mentors as a way to reduce violent crime, here in Indy. In a post on the police department’s Facebook page, Sergeant Kendale Adams wrote, “Unfortunately, a lot of the youth don’t have mentors. They […]
Community reaction to a story on Fox 59’s new 11pm NewsPoint program continues to reverberate. A follow up story on NewsPoint discussed the longstanding feelings of many in the Indianapolis African-American community about continued racial discrimination in some Broad Ripple nightclubs and bars. The updated news story, which aired for over five minutes, an unprecedented […]
Some feel that the crime rate is rising and situations are getting out of control simply because there is not enough Law Enforcement active and on the streets doing anything about it. The panel answers the question “Does Indianapolis Need More Police Officers?” Will Mentoring The Youth Do The Job? #YourLifeMattersIndy Amos Brown Leads […]
The age old topic that raises the ire as well as more questions is the “Stop Snitching” code that is in full effect mostly in black communities. Chino delivers very real and honest dialogue on not only the origin of this but, it also speaks to the upbringing of the children who are now the […]
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Chief Rick Hite appealed to the community for information about the shooting of seven people in Broad Ripple the night of July…
It’s been an emotional, trying week for police in Indianapolis. Not only did they lose one of their own – Officer Perry Renn – but attacks on police officers in the 11th largest city in the country are the highest they’ve been in several years. The rising tide of violence in Indy is taking its […]
In an expansive Afternoons with Amos interview, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Chief Rick Hite explained his department’s summer crime fighting and crime prevention program and strategies. The Chief also took calls of concern from listeners about crime problems in their neighborhoods and a desire to see and feel more engagement from IMPD officers in neighborhood crime. […]
