Indianapolis leaders and community stakeholders on Thursday highlighted a proposal to include money for a pilot clinician-led emergency response program in the city's proposed budget – an [...]

By Nikki DeMentri | WRTV Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett said a clinician-led pilot program to respond to mental health-related calls could begin early next year if the [...]

By Gemma DiCarlo | WVPE 88.1 Elkhart/South Bend South Bend activists and city leaders continue to debate the city’s fledgling mental health crisis response services. The argument was prompted [...]

By Naja Woods | ABC57 On Friday the St. Joseph County Prosecutor’s confirmed it is waiting for ballistics tests to come back before releasing much more information on the deadly South Bend police [...]

By Anne Lurea | WSBT Reporter Community members are asking again for answers in a police involved shooting. That shooting happened two weeks ago and left one man dead. 51-year-old Dante Kittrell [...]

By Faith in St. Joseph County Leaders David Springer and Rebekah Go No matter what our race, where we live, or how we pray, when our family members struggle with their mental health, we want them [...]

By Marek Mazurek | South Bend Tribune In the wake of Dante Kittrell’s death at the hands of South Bend police, community activists are holding a community meeting Wednesday night [...]

By Abriana Herron | Indianapolis Recorder Mayor Joe Hogsett presented his proposed 2023 city-county budget to the Indianapolis City-County Council during its meeting Aug. 8. Totaling around $1.4 [...]

By Elizabeth Gabriel | Indiana Public Media A local faith group is helping Black Indianapolis youth learn about politics and empowerment. The eight young people in the first cohort of Faith [...]

By Gemma DiCarlo | WVPE 88.1 Elkhart/South Bend A proposed common council resolution put South Bend city leaders at odds Monday about who should be responsible for responding to mental health [...]

By Rachel Fradette | Indianapolis Star Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett said during a presentation late Monday that his $1.4 billion 2023 city budget earmarks more than $300 million for public [...]

By Katrina Pross | WFYI Updated at 12:45 p.m. on July 25 The in-custody death of Herman Whitfield III has been ruled a homicide, according to the Marion County Coroner’s Office. Whitfield, 39, [...]

Less than two years after racial justice protests sparked calls to “defund the police,” states and jurisdictions are using pandemic aid to pad already bloated law enforcement budgets. By Brian [...]

By WRTV.com Staff On Friday, the parents of Herman Whitfield III joined leaders from Faith in Indiana gathered at City Marker for a rally. They continue to call for the release of the [...]

By Jake Allen | Indianapolis Star Indianapolis faith leaders and family members continued to call on the city’s police department Friday to release the full, unedited body camera footage of [...]

By Bianca Reyes | Fox59 The recent release of IMPD body camera footage showing the in-custody death of a man suffering from mental health issues has re-ignited community leaders’ push [...]

By Sarah Nelson | IndyStar Members of Indianapolis’ Black Church Coalition is calling for the city’s police department to release the full, unedited body camera footage capturing the [...]

By Jayden Kennett | Indianapolis Recorder Forty-eight percent of the Marion County jail population is Black, despite only making up 27% of the population, according to estimates from the American [...]

By Abriana Herron | Indianapolis Recorder Rev. Shauna Lipscomb saw a shift in her son, Timothy Kimbrough, emotionally and mentally, after he sustained a traumatic brain injury while playing [...]

By WTHR.com staff Faith in Indiana’s Black Church Coalition, along with the Union District Caucus, the Ministerium, and LIVE FREE, are calling the prosecution of the IMPD officers that [...]