9/28/2006
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Justin Ohlemiller (Mayor’s Office), 317-327-3690
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Community Crime Prevention Task Force to engage the public with neighborhood forums
Indianapolis – The Community Crime Prevention Task Force will host a series of public forums across the city to engage residents and business leaders in the city’s continuing efforts to address rising crime.
The Community Crime Prevention Task Force is a blue-ribbon panel organized by The Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee aimed at studying the root causes of crime and recommending strategies to address those causes.
The public forums are scheduled for Thursday, October 5 from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. and will be held at the following locations:
- City-County Building (Beurt SerVaas Public Assembly Room), 200 E. Washington St.
- Northview Middle School, 8401 Westfield Blvd.
- Thomas Craig IPS #15, 2302 E. Michigan St.
- Perry Meridian High School, 202 W. Meridian School Rd.
- Ben Davis High School, 1200 N. Girl School Rd.
“We want to make this task force as accessible as possible to anyone and everyone who wants to be involved in this process,” said Community Crime Prevention Task Force Co-chair Bill Shrewsberry. “Having these meetings at various locations across the city allows us to take the taskforce directly to the neighborhoods and engage more people.”
Shrewsberry said the 48 member task force will divide up into groups to cover all five forum locations.
The public forums mark another step in the city’s ongoing efforts to curb violent crime. Last week the Indianapolis City-County Council passed Mayor Peterson’s proposed 2007 city and county budget – which included the largest public safety budget in the city’s history. More than $36 million was tabbed to pay for new crime fighting initiatives, including adding more police officers to the street and continuing historic criminal justice reforms that will speed up the judicial process to end early releases from jail.
All of these crime fighting measures stem from an emergency meeting of criminal justice officials convened in August by Mayor Peterson. At that meeting, Council President Monroe Gray recommended the creation of the Community Crime Prevention Task Force to look into the root causes of crime and violence.
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