For several months a broad cross section of community leaders, from elected officials to grassroots leaders along with police officers and ex-offenders met in a series of task force and reaction sessions to develop an Action Plan to help reduce crime and violence in Indianapolis. Besides drawing on great local ideas, the Task Force talked […]
Despite Indianapolis’ $65 million budget deficit for 2013, a coalition of Indianapolis church congregations is urging city officials to invest $500,000 in next year’s budget to fund a new violence prevention initiative. IndyCan appeared on Afternoons with Amos to tout a violence prevention strategy called Ceasefire that would target an estimated twenty violent groups in […]
