It’s all in where you live.

Jeff talks a bit about Carl Brizzi and his bad polls and so forth.
The dirty little secret that nobody wants to admit about the current Indy murder rate is that most of the murders are (as in 1998) happening in an area bounded by 42nd and 10th Streets (north to south) and Meridian and Mithoeffer (west to east). Call me racist all you want, but I don’t think I need to explain what kind of neighborhoods are found in that area, and what kind of crime goes on there on a regular basis. (Funny that the Star isn’t printing a comprehensive map of the murder locations this time, like they did back in ’98. Hmm.)
What we’ve got is drug dealers and gang-bangers killing their own again, probably over turf. And I for one don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing. But nobody wants to admit it and either let it play itself out or go into the area in force and arrest everyone who even looks at them funny.
Of course the latter wouldn’t work anyway — we don’t have a big enough jail, at least not according to our “make ’em comfortable or cut ’em loose” judges.
But none of this is Brizzi’s fault or even his jurisdiction. The prosecutor can’t help it if the cops are being told to keep hands off and the judges are letting bad people go because of jail crowding. This is just what happens when you let Democrats run big cities. Honestly? If I were Brizzi I’d be thinking about cutting my losses, getting into one of the big law firms here, and waiting 4 years to see how badly Melina screws the pooch. Because, after all, we’ve already seen that you can blame crime waves on the prosecutor, even though he’s actually doing his job.
In the meantime, even though we don’t live in or near the murder epicenter, I’m heeled, because I don’t expect the sheriff or the IMPD or who the hell ever will be responding to a 911 call to get here before I have to use deadly force on a home intruder. (But that’s true wherever you live.)