Homicide Rates and Prevention in Indianapolis

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If the homicide rates don't continue to decline, the beautiful city of Indianapolis will not just be known for sports and amenities but criminal homicides as well. However, this has changed tremendously over the past four years. The Department of Public Safety Crime Analysis section (DPS CAS) released the criminal homicide statistic rates for the years of 2007-2010. These statistical rates pack a hard punch, for the criminal homicides which took place in 2007 and 2008 which, broke even both years resulting in 114 homicides for those two years. The homicide rate for the year of 2009 is at 100 and for 2010 the homicide rate is at 94. There's also a current year to date statistic chart from, The Department of Public Safety Crime Analysis Office which states that, there has been 81 homicides in Indianapolis so far from the dates of January 1, 2011 to October 8, 2011. Hopefully, the criminal homicide numbers will continue to decrease as the year’s progress (DPS CAS, 2011).

During the course of research from The Department of Public Safety unsolved homicide indexes (DPS UHI), in the years of 2008 and 2009 a total of forty three criminal homicides still remain unsolved, resulting in twelve unsolved homicides for the year of 2008 and thirty one for the year of 2009. These are very high numbers for unsolved homicides considering, that for the years of 2008 and 2009 there were a total of 214 homicides in all. This means that almost 21% of the homicides for those years are yet to be solved. For these unsolved criminal homicides, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) should take a more aggressive approach for resolution on these cases. Due to the time lapsed, IMPD should refresh the memories of the public by broadcasting these ...

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