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It’s long past time to rethink Circle Centre. It’s an absolute disaster at this point and has been for the better part of a decade. Hogsett has failed Indianapolis with his pro-criminal stand and refusal to resolve the homeless situation
You say that this issue has been going on for the better part of a decade. Mayor Hogsett has only been the Mayor since 2016, can’t all be his fault…oh and there’s this thing called Covid going around too.
I didn’t say Hogsett was responsible for all of it. But the decline in desirability of the city center accelerated under his watch and had been catastrophic. I can’t even walk from my office building to City Way or a football game without being assaulted by at least four homeless people. Prior to the pandemic I got hit in the face when two homeless criminals decided to fist fight under the circle in the middle of the workday. Covid is a convenient excuse, but that doesn’t explain the last ten years and the last 3-5 in particular.
Hogsett has made the police a public enemy but supporting criminals killed in the act of committing violent crimes. He’s set a tone of tolerance for criminal activity and for allowing the homeless to take over the downtown. It’s embarrassing and shameful.
Why doesn’t the Star or IBJ have any stories on people not being able to walk four blocks Downtown without being assaulted? Do you just see a homeless person and assume they will assault you, or do you do something to cause you to regularly get assaulted by them? Your hyperbole is actually getting hilarious now. Thanks for the laugh.
It’s so common place that it’s not news. There’s nothing hyperbolic about it. There are very well known homeless people downtown who assault passers by at every chance. The woman who knows on the circle. The gentlemen under the rail bridge. Everyone knows them.
IMPD already takes up something like a third of the city budget, and under Hogsett they’re getting even more money this year. Not exactly what I’d call a “pro-criminal stand”.
That reminds me: is the woman who used to be knitting or crocheting what looked like pot holders (usually near Hilbert and Rocket Fizz) still around? I used to see her every day when I walked around the circle to work, but WFH has changed that up so I haven’t seen her for a long time.
Apparently you don’t watch when he talks about rioters and criminals, Scott.
So Nick, you’re saying the homeless regularly assault people and it’s never reported? I lived Downtown for give years and was never assaulted. Am I the odd man out? Are you someone who provokes them and gets attacked? You sound crazy right now. Learn empathy.
I find your comment basically equating homeless people to criminals particularly uninformed and unfair. Although I have also noticed an increased homeless presence in the past several months, I know that a huge contributing factor is the reduced capacity of local shelters and homeless services due to the pandemic. The city definitely needs to do something to address the amount of trash littering the sidewalks and building entryways in parts of downtown but being homeless isn’t a crime.
Being homeless isn’t a crime. Assaulting people in the streets is. And that aside, who wants a bunch of homeless people in the middle of downtown dedicating and urinating in the streets. It’s horrible fir the city.
Being homeless is indeed not a crime, but squatting on the public ROW isn’t legal either. Much like jaywalking or bicycling on sidewalks, it is a nuisance infraction that occurs infrequently enough that law enforcement largely has tolerated it because it has bigger fish to fry. That said, if these infractions accumulate to the point of compromising public health, safety, and the general welfare, it is entirely the right of LEOs to step up enforcement. That appears to be the case in many cities where COVID has forced the closure of shelters. And the activities attendant to homeless squatting–littering, panhandling, public urination–are all criminal acts (albeit not felonious).
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Given that the downtown Indy appears to have squandered 25 years of revitalization in just six months, it seems reasonable that city leadership should take a firm stand, because it’s inconclusive that businesses (and patrons of these businesses) are going to feel comfortable returning when COVID subsides, if downtown even partly resembles the conditions as some people here depict it.