Things in Indianapolis are unfortunately going about as well as they've been going for the past half-decade.
From ABC:
Two teenage boys were killed in a mass shooting incident that took place early Saturday morning in Indianapolis, according to police.
Officers responded to calls of a disturbance around 1:27 a.m. near Washington and Meridian Street when they heard shots fired, according to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.
An unidentified 16-year-old boy was pronounced dead at the scene and five other victims were transported to the hospital, police said.
You'll be unsurprised to know that the homicide rate in the city, though on a downward trend in the past few years, is still hugely elevated from pre-pandemic levels:
And I think you'll also be unsurprised to learn that the city's police chief is pretty much done with it at this point:
[There are] hundreds of unsupervised kids down here. I don't know how many times I have to say it. We are not your children's keepers.
You are.
And parents and guardians have got to step up. A kid is dead tonight. ... It's unacceptable.
The police department all night long went from place to place to place trying to prevent these kind of things. And I've got to be honest, I'm tired of it.
You should be tired of it. This is not our job to do this. It is unnecessary.
Chief Christopher Bailey has reason to be angry. According to local news reports, after the latest mass shooting police arrested a 17-year-old, a 16-year-old, a 15-year-old and a 13-year-old.
So you can kind of grasp the chief's anger when he says, for instance: "[I have a] 16-year-old daughter. I cannot imagine letting her roam around down here tonight like she was, like kids were, unattended, unsupervised, nothing to do."
[S]ome of these individuals that were shot could have been very well, not engaged in any kind of disturbance whatsoever. ... But, look, nothing good happens after, after midnight.
Parents: Take heed. Don't let your children run wild.
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