The Indianapolis homicide rate exceeds that of New York City. Our police department is demoralized and widely criticized. Citizen complaints–fair and unfair–are widespread. What should a new Mayor do?
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LETTERS TO THE NEXT MAYOR 2
I first met Officer Friendly in grade school, when he visited my classroom and explained that The Policeman Is Your Friend. It didn’t occur to me that reality might be somewhat more complicated until my second day as Bill Hudnut’s Corporation Counsel, when IPD initiated a job action by circling the City County Building with…
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LETTERS TO THE NEXT MAYOR 1
Leadership Skills. This year, voters in Indianapolis will elect either Sue Ann Gilroy or Bart Peterson to lead our City into the new millenium…
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Moralizing Government
Twenty years ago, social scientist Theodore Lowi wrote a much-quoted book called The End of Liberalism. A few months ago, the University of Oklahoma Press issued his most recent book, The End of the Republican Era. The title is a play on…
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Silence is Golden
The phones began to ring at the Indiana Civil Liberties Union immediately following the announcement that public schools in Pendleton were instituting a "moment of silence." Members of the media clearly anticipated controversy–and were just as…
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