WTHR and the Indy Star are both carrying stories about the Indianapolis Police Department opening a “command center” at the Phoenix Apartments.
From the Indy Star:
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department announced Wednesday it will soon open a command center within the Phoenix Apartments, the Northeast-side complex where a 3-year-old’s recent death drew attention to its chronic poverty and crime problems.…Sheriff Frank Anderson, in announcing IMPD’s plans, called the apartment complex “a microcosm of all the problems facing our city: drugs, crime, unemployment, undereducation, hunger and poverty.”The command center, he said, will help the department step up its efforts to increase patrols and build relationships between police officers and the complex’s residents.…The Phoenix’s Edgemere Court, where TaJanay was living with her mother and Green, is the site of more violent crimes than any residential block in the city. A recent Indianapolis Housing Agency study found 421 crime reports in the past 18 months.
As the reader will recall, Phoenix Apartments was the location where 3 year old TaJanay Bailey died, allegedly at the hands of her mother, Charity Bailey, and her boyfriend, Terence Green. Carl Brizzi, Marion County Prosecutor also announced plans to open a mobile office there as well.
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