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Preliminary Violent Crime Data

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Criminal Homicide

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Aggravated Assault

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Robbery

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Rape

2019 2020

39.44%

• .38%
• 11.59%
• 24.50%

• Prelim. Non-Fatal Shooting Data

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Incidents

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Victims

2019 2020

23.53% 15.38%

Preliminary Property Crime Data

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Burglary

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Larceny

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Vehicle Theft

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Arson

2019 2020

• 24.32%
• 16.17%
• 4.28%
• 6.90%

Preliminary Overall Crime Data

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Overall Violent Crime

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Overall Property Crime

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Overall Crime

2019 2020

• 12.11%
• 9.29%
• 11.13%

Prevention Intervention Enforcement People

• Community grants
• Public education

campaign

• Peacemakers
• Homeless Unit
• MCAT/BHU
• CGIC
• IVRP
• VCU
• Homicide Unit

Places

• Beat policing
• Hot spot policing

2.0

• B.Link
• Operation Night

Light

• Blight elimination
• Hot spot policing

2.0

• B.Link

Behaviors

• Community grants
• Safe Summer
• Indy PAL
• GVIs
• Domestic violence

safe housing program

• Community grants
• Hot spot policing
• Group Violence

Interventions

Prevention/Places

Hot spot policing 2.0

• Beat officers, street supervisors, and district command staff will increase

their visibility in identified hot spot areas.

• Each hot spot will be assigned a ‘dosage’ – for example, a beat officer

will be required to mark out for 15 minutes of community policing in the hot spot in their beat every two hours.

• This will be done with vehicle, bike, and foot patrols, and stationary

positions.

• Officers will be tasked with building stronger relationships with neighbors

and businesses in their assigned areas of responsibility during this time.

• Supervisors will be held accountable for ensuring the hot spots within

their responsibility receive the prescribed dosage.

Prevention/Places

Beat policing

• In 2018, IMPD returned to community-based beat policing, which allows

every neighborhood to know their officer, and every officer to know their neighborhood.

• On Monday, IMPD expanded the number of beats in the city from 78 to

106, shrinking the size of each beat - the smaller area of responsibility allows officers to spend more time building relationships.

• To learn what beat they live in, residents can visit:

inmaps.indy.gov/impdbeatlookup

Staffing Structure Changes

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Number of IMPD operational areas

Zones: 2012 Beats: 2018 Beats: 2020

33 78 106

Expanded Beat Policing

33 78 106

78 beats 106 beats

Prevention/Places

B.Link

• B.Link (Business Link) Pro – harnesses cloud-based technology to

connect IMPD intelligence detectives with security camera systems.

• Improves police response, furthers investigations, and deters crime.
• Live streams are not monitored by IMPD, but accessed after a call for

service or report of a public safety threat.

• Indy Public Safety Foundation is liaison between IMPD and businesses.
• Three businesses and two apartment communities have been

successfully integrated as part of B.Link Pro.

• Cameras being installed on the downtown canal walk by the

Department of Metropolitan Development will be the newest additions to the B.Link Pro program.

• BLinkindy.org

Intervention/People

Homeless Outreach

• Work to build trust and long-lasting relationships with un-housed individuals,

which has proven to be effective in overcoming obstacles that to accomplishing end goal of permanent supportive housing.

• City has launched a non-congregate housing program to offer individuals

experiencing homelessness safe, secure temporary accommodations in hotel rooms and a pathway to more permanent housing options. MCAT/BHU

• The Mobile Crisis Assistance Team pairs an officer with a mental health clinician,

focusing on real-time crises and active police runs.

• The Behavioral Health Unit pairs an officer with a mental health clinician to follow

up on immediate detentions and address chronic distresses.

Enforcement/People

Continued partnership with local, state, federal law enforcement

• Indianapolis Violence Reduction Partnership: re-established in 2017,

leverages the combined resources of community, local, state, and federal partners to focus on the small group of individuals responsible for the majority of violence in the region.

• Crime Gun Intelligence Center: focuses on the timely collection and

analysis of crime gun evidence, linking criminal shooting events to investigate and build strong criminal cases against trigger-pullers to disrupt the gun violence cycle.

• Collaboration between IMPD, ATF, Marion County Forensic Services

Agency, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana, Marion County Prosecutor’s Office, and IU as a research partner.

• So far in 2020, this effort has resulted in the arrest of 129 violent

individuals and the removal of 127 crime guns from the community.

Enforcement/People

Expanding staffing in units focused on violent crime:

• Homicide Unit
• CGIC
• Violent Crime Unit (VCU) – specialty unit focused on covert

investigations and warrant services for violent suspects

Other updates

• Body worn cameras
• IMPD has signed a contract with Utility to begin equipping officers

with body worn cameras.

• Officers who respond to 9-1-1 calls – beat officers, street

supervisors, and special units – will be equipped with cameras, a total of 1,100 officers.

• Installations expected to begin the first week of August at a goal rate
• f 10 officers per day.
• indy.gov/activity/body-worn-camera-program
• Staffing
• 21st Recruit Class sworn-in on Monday.
• Lateral class planned for fall.
• Pre-Academy Readiness (PAR) workshop each Tuesday evening,

continues to have high attendance.

• JoinIMPD.indy.gov

Historical staffing

Prepared: 7/14/2020 Current staffing: 1690

Prevention/People

In 2020, nearly $4 million is being invested in community-based crime and violence prevention:

• Victim and Witness Assistance Program continues to provide support

to victims and witnesses of crimes who cooperate in investigations and/or prosecutions.

• Community Crime Prevention Grant Program administered by the

Indianapolis Foundation will award more than $2.75 million.

• Funds available for this program have doubled since 2016.
• OPHS has worked with CICF to focus these dollars more on violence

prevention and increase accountability for grantees.

• Community-Based Violence Reduction Partnership grant program

administered by OPHS accepted applications through 6/30, will award total of $300,000 to grassroots groups in coming weeks.

Prevention/People

Public education campaign

• OPHS is partnering with Radio One to launch a campaign utilizing public

affairs programming along with radio spots and digital assets to promote the violence prevention initiatives of grantees as well as resources they

• ffer for those at risk.
• ‘Street Lights are On’ Campaign: a social media campaign focused on

encouraging parents and the greater community to act for the well-being

• f our city’s children.
• Community leaders each utilize their platforms to reach a wider

audience.

• Anyone can get involved.

Prevention/Behaviors

Safe Summer

• Second year, designed to provide safe and productive alternatives to

crime and violence for youth during the warmer months

• July 10 – August 14
• Every Friday 7-10pm at Municipal Gardens, C.A.F.E., and Bethel

Parks

• June 20 – August 15
• Every Saturday 8-11 pm, Peacemakers and neighborhood violence

interrupters walking the downtown area to engage youth

• July 24 from 4-7pm
• Anti-Gun Violence Youth Summit at Pathways Center
• OPHS.indy.gov

Indy Police Athletics & Activities League Community grants programming

Intervention/People

Peacemakers

• Team of individuals, led by Community Violence Reduction Director

Majors, who focus on interrupting violence in Indianapolis neighborhoods.

• Also serve as resource connectors, bridging the gap between individuals

at highest risk and community service providers.

• Team is focusing their efforts on the neighborhoods with the

highest incidences of violence, leveraging IMPD hot spot data.

• Team works alongside neighborhood-based violence interrupters.
• OPHS has recently invested in new case management platform which

will enable better and more comprehensive follow-up with community contacts.

Intervention/Behaviors

Group Violence Interventions

• Focus on people at highest risk for violence as victims or perpetrators.
• Collaborative effort with community and law enforcement partners.
• Deliver moral message of nonviolence and collective community

message of disapproval of violent actions.

• Clear notice from law enforcement of consequences if individuals engage

in violence, followed up with focused enforcement.

• Offer of support, wraparound services, and healthier options, providing

access to such needs as jobs, training, education with help of community partners.

• Mayor Hogsett has announced his intention to include additional

funding to expand this strategy in 2021 as part of the City-County’s 2021 proposed budget.

Intervention/Behaviors

Domestic violence safe housing program

• OPHS in partnership with the Domestic Violence Network was awarded a

grant from Braveheart Foundation to fund hotel stays, food vouchers, and advocacy services for individuals trapped in dangerous living situations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• DVN has established a referral system for service providers and

community-based advocates.

• DVNconnect.org

Questions?