Indiana crime gun task force seizes 369 guns, makes 397 arrests in a year – KRDO

By Jasmine Minor

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    INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Indiana Crime Gun Activity Pressure says it’s pulled 369 unlawful weapons off the streets and made 397 arrests in a yr.

Chris Bailey, assistant chief of Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Division, stated Tuesday, that the duty drive does “the harmful work each single day and put themselves between us and evil and say to the neighborhood, not right now.”

A number of members of the duty drive joined Bailey in a information convention. They included Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett, Fishers Mayor Scott Fadness, and Doug Carter, the superintendent of the Indiana State Police.

Within the final yr, the duty drive says Indianapolis has seen a 20% lower in murders, an 18% decline in general homicides, and a ten% decline in nonfatal shootings.

“In case you take that one gun off (the road), only one gun, was $5 million {dollars} (or) $10 million price it? The reply, in fact, is ‘sure,’” Carter stated.

Bailey says a part of what makes the duty drive work is the continued workforce effort throughout metropolis strains. Bailey stated that the duty drive members labored “collectively on a joint operation through the use of numerous strategies, (and) investigators had been capable of receive data on a wished particular person touring again to Central Indiana from Chicago after being there lower than 24 hours.”

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