Just 37 days into the new year, Indianapolis is already on pace to shatter it’s previous all-time homicide record — possibly making it the deadliest year ever for the city so far.

Last night, a gruesome quadruple murder marked the 20-24th homicides in the city in 2020. This is an alarming total that when projected out over a full calendar year would put Indianapolis at 236 homicides — which would easily eclipse the previous homicide record high year of 159 in 2018.

2019 marked the first year in the last five that Indy did not break its previous homicide record. However, overall crime data suggests that 2019 may have been a more devastating year than the previous, with some numbers like youth homicides doubling from the year prior.

Just yesterday evening, a proposal to create an additional bi-partisan crime commission of volunteers introduced by Republicans was voted down overwhelmingly by City Democrats, who claimed that they already had a good handle on the growing Indianapolis crime crisis.

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