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INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis City-County Council has voted to add over $3 million to fight crime, a proposal that adds money to combat mental health concerns, domestic violence, and money for data analysis and other programs for the Indianapolis Metro Police Department, totaling about one-third of the $3 million.

The proposal passed 23 to 2, despite objections from a variety of angles, including a cavalcade of people who support defunding or abolishing the police, more specifically IMPD.

LISTEN: The entire debate over the proposal (warning: there’s a bad word or two)

“So, we have a police department. Did they prevent these crimes,” asked one woman wearing a BLM t-shirt, talking about the July 4th holiday weekend. “So, they’re not preventing crime.”

For over an hour one speaker after another in the public comments portion spoke against the proposal on the grounds that they believe IMPD should be getting less money or none at all, including a young lady named Kyra, who said she represented Indy10 Black Lives Matter. She got the dander of Council Pres. Vop Osili up when she used the f-word.

“People can’t feed their families and you guys don’t even give a f**k,” she said, before being met by two deputies. “You gonna arrest me? You gonna call your pigs on me?” That started chants of “Defund the police, no justice, no peace”. The people chanting were escorted out. But, the speakers came one after the other, suggesting that providing IMPD with any more money would be a travesty.

Meanwhile, an amendment that would have added a gunshot detection system and both static and mobile license plate readers was voted down 20 to 5, after much public comment.

“I believe that these technologies would, in fact, provide the immediate relief that the citizens of Indianapolis would need,” said Councilor Paul Annee, a Republican.

Councilor Brian Mowery said he would also support the proposal, but objected to the nature of the investments, saying they are more long-term.

“In the hour that we’ve spent talking about this, three people have been shot in this city. It’s time for immediate solutions, not long-term investments,” he said.

Earlier Monday Fraternal Order of Police Pres. Rick Snyder called on the council to amend the proposal to include an end to low bonds for violent offenders, in addition to calling for the gunshot detection system and tag scanners, which IMPD Chief Randal Taylor said might be good for the department at another time.

“I think there is emerging technology that is coming forth that will do as good a job if not better, at a lesser cost to the citizens of Indianapolis,” he said.