- Significant portion of Fishers crime attributed to Marion County residents with criminal histories.
- Need for collaboration between law enforcement agencies and prosecutors to address crime issue.
- Importance of addressing root causes and having nuanced discussion on judicial system’s role.
Much Of Fishers Crime Is Coming From Marion County
Can a regional approach to addressing crime issues be the key to keeping communities safe? In a recent discussion, the Mayor of Fishers, Indiana, Scott Fadness, joined Tony Katz to talk about the growing concern of crime issues in Marion County and how they’re affecting neighboring cities like Fishers. A regional crime summit, held at the Gainbridge Field House, brought together mayors and police chiefs from the surrounding areas to discuss the issue.
According to Fadness, a significant portion of the crime in Fishers can be attributed to individuals from Marion County, many of whom have a lengthy criminal history. “One of the things that we came across a number of years ago is just the number of individuals who have a violent criminal history we come across that are illegally carrying firearms,” he said. “We saw a significant increase in that and that’s really where we rolled up our sleeves and said we need to lock arms with IMPD and erase that border and really start working together collectively.”
Fadness emphasized the importance of collaboration between law enforcement agencies, stating, “I think the Violent Crimes Task Force unit that Indianapolis has… the Crime Gun Intelligence Center that we have, they’re doing the hard, dangerous work of finding these trigger pullers, so that piece of the accountability equation I think is there.” However, he expressed frustration with the prosecutor’s office, saying, “I think the prosecutor’s office had, frankly, downstream and there were frustrations I think at the law enforcement level about the level of aggressiveness that the prosecutor’s office had.”…