She said she noticed less speeding through 38th Street in her neighborhood during the campaign last summer. While not the only long-term solution, increased enforcement can at least provide short-term relief, Crown Hill Neighborhood Association President Danita Hoskin said. IMPD partners with public works engineers and community advocates on a fatal crash review team that examines the reasons behind the incidents and what can be done. Police acknowledge traffic enforcement is only one tool to fight reckless driving, and that other solutions lie in education and infrastructure. Town hall: "Complete Streets" and Indianapolis' pedestrian safety crisis "I know in this environment, with the way prices are, that's not something that you want to add to your budget, so my suggestion is you follow the rules of the road, be courteous, and get home safe," Bailey said. While declining to specify exactly how much more overtime will be granted, Bailey said there will be an expanded emphasis overall on making stops for moving traffic violations, likely resulting in more fines. By 2018, IMPD had half as many traffic patrol officers and wrote about 8,000 tickets.īut so far this year, still with 25 officers on the regular traffic patrol unit, IMPD has written about 15,700 traffic tickets. In 2007, the department had about 50 officers dedicated to traffic patrol who wrote more than 37,000 traffic tickets as recently as 2010, IndyStar's James Briggs reported last year. IMPD officers have in recent years written fewer traffic tickets than they used to. Read: 38th Street residents hope Purple Line will bring lasting change The road saw 4% of the city's fatal crashes from 2015-20, according to a map of crash data compiled by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Organization but the road only spans 0.5% of the city's total road mileage.
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The American Rescue Plan money will go toward hand-held speed detecting equipment, license plate readers and public safety cameras.ģ8th Street, a common spot for drag racing, will be one focus in this year's campaign, Bailey said. The illegal activity isn't contained to one neighborhood, but is a city-wide problem, DeBlaso said.įor this initiative, each policing district will develop their own plans and resources will be allocated accordingly, Bailey said, declining to provide more detail on which streets will be targeted. Since March, they have made 26 arrests, and in the process recovered 67 stolen vehicles and 17 firearms, State Police Lt. State Police started working with IMPD this spring to target drag racers and spinners.
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"I can't stress about how dangerous this really really is," he said, referencing videos IMPD has received of drivers losing control at these events and striking onlookers.
These are often organized events that originate from social media, and sometimes charge admission, IMPD Special Operations Cmdr. This year, across the city, police will focus especially on drag racing and spinning contests, where drivers take up an intersection or parking lot to spin their rear wheels in circles. IMPD launched a similar campaign last summer, diverting $130,000 over three months to cover overtime traffic patrols on 38th Street between High School Road and Emerson Avenue, along with a few other problem roads. 1 priority, and this includes our roadways," he said.
Resources will not be diverted away from violent crime prevention, which still remains a priority, he said. The effort will extend city-wide and last at least through the summer, Bailey said - possibly longer if the results prove effective. "We are addressing the specific issues brought to us by our community." "These efforts are not a one-size-fits-all," Indianapolis Police Assistant Chief Chris Bailey said. With State Police, they've already begun targeted patrols at organized street races and pop-up spinning clubs on city streets, interstates and intersections. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department plans use money within its operational budget to ramp up overtime patrols across the city and use its anticipated hundreds of thousands of dollars in American Rescue Plan money to purchase speed radar equipment for police cars that don't currently have them. Pedestrian safety: What can be done about Indianapolis' pedestrian safety problem?
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