Apr 13, 2021 / 07:24 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) News 8 wanted to know how Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department trains officers to use tasers on the streets.
The IMPD training academy answered the request. Tasers have become essential tools in the department’s new de-escalation training, which is taught at the training facility.
IMPD issued its first taser 15 years ago. The nonlethal electroshock weapons are now standard issue to all new recruits, but what’s new is that recruits and veteran officer have to go through training on how to use tasers.
IMPD Sgt. Michael Daley said, “We use the taser when somebody is assaulting an officer in an effort to try to gain control with as little injury as possible. We will also use it in a situation where somebody may be armed with a deadly weapon and where an officer has a lethal where he is covering that officer, and we use the taser in that scenario to avoid killing that person.”
An IMPD officer was in a hospital Tuesday night after his car chase ended in a crash on the Near Northside. The driver who refused to pull over got away.
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department police officer s patrol car collided with another vehicle not involved in the pursuit at Fall Creek Parkway North Drive and North Meridian Street, according to police.
That vehicle s driver was checked by medics at the crash site but did not go to the hospital. The officer was in serious but stable condition, IMPD Maj. Kerry Buckner said at the wreck scene.
The chase, which started about 7:30 p.m., exceeded 80 mph, Buckner said. The driver being chased threw an assault-style rifle out of the window during the pursuit. Police later recovered the firearm, Buckner said. The driver continued north on Meridian Street after the police officer wrecked.
Muncie man pleads guilty to child porn charges
MUNCIE, Ind. A Muncie man this week admitted to possessing child pornography after striking a deal with prosecutors.
Scott Michael Dodd, 30, was arrested in March 2020 by members of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, including Indiana State Police troopers and members of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.
An Indiana State Police SWAT team served a search warrant at Dodd s South Hoyt Avenue home.
The Muncie man was later charged with eight counts of possession of child pornography.
In a plea bargain signed this week, Dodd agreed to plead guilty to three of those charges two Level 5 felonies, each carrying a maximum six-year sentence, and one Level 6 felony carrying up to 30 months in prison.
Apr 14, 2021 / 03:50 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana has issued an alert as police seek a damaged car believed to be involved in the fatal hit-and-run of a woman on April 4.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers were called around 9:30 a.m. April 4 to the 5300 block of East 38th Street, near Emerson Avenue.
Tnielle McNeal, 45, was hit while crossing 38th Street when hit by an eastbound vehicle, Crime Stoppers said in a news release issued Tuesday.
Video later showed the hit-and-run happened about 2:30 a.m. April 4.
Investigators found car parts at the scene from a white Kia Optima made from 2013-2015. The car will have damage on its front corner of the passenger side; a quarter panel from in front of the tire was found at the scene. The Kita also will be missing its passenger-side mirror assembly.