The technology is part of $9 million in American Rescue Plan funding. It includes gunshot detection systems, license plate readers and public safety cameras.

Increased incidents of reckless driving, aggressive behavior, speeding and street racing are happening across Marion County.

The Indianapolis NAACP hosted a virtual conference with Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Chief Randal Taylor on June 2 to discuss police reform two years after the 2020 protests.

The kits, assembled and provided by the Central Indiana Police Foundation, and include things like heavy-duty medical shears, bandages and tourniquets.

WFYI spoke with Josh Riddick, an organizer with Faith in Indiana’s Black Church Coalition initiative, about what community leaders say should happen next after a man who was having a mental health crisis was tased by an IMPD officer and died.

An Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer faces domestic battery charges.

Many in the community are calling for action after the death of a man who had a mental health crisis.

The Indiana Coalition to End Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking and the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department are working to reduce the number of unsolved sexual assault cases.

A 14-year-old was shot Friday morning on Indianapolis’ east side.

Whitfield’s death in police custody was especially painful for those whose loved ones have a mental illness. During the vigil, attendees were invited to write the names of friends or family they were thinking of on a sticky note and place it on signs that held messages such as “SEND HELP NOT HANDCUFFS.”