Lieutenant Shane Foley with IMPD says of the ten officer involved shootings in 2023, all of them had to do with serious crimes.
INDIANAPOLIS — In the last nine months, theAs for how many times an officer was involved in a shooting, the department shows ten times.Various crime scenes, all with similar outcomes. An IMPD officer, drawing their weapon and then open firing on a suspect.
“When an officer encounters an individual who might be armed, they do a stop on a vehicle that is high-risk where an individual may be wanted for a violent felony, our officers preemptively draw their firearms and point them at the person or vehicle with the anticipation they may have to use them,” said IMPD Lt. Shane Foley.So far this year, officers have been called out to nearly 600,000 incidents spanning a wide variety of situations. Within those incidents, police have used force 910 times.
Foley said of the ten times officers have been involved in a shooting this year, it had to do with serious crimes. “What I can tell you is out of all those situations, our officers faced individuals that were armed, they faced individuals that were either committing a crime, or not following instructions. What it tells me is our officers are facing some challenges on a regular basis,” he said.Related Articles
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