Can Ballard do it on crime?

Well our Mayor got what he wanted, control of the our police department. So where do we go from this point? Can our Mayor solve our crime problem in Indy?
We have seen 19 murders here this year so far and we have seen some minor drug arrests. But the problem does not stop at the Mayor’s office. Unless we get courts and our Judges to hand out sentences that are base on the reality of the amount of time that these people are going to spend in prison, crime will continue to grow in our city.
I have read rap sheets where a person has been arrested and convicted time after time. They serve a few years, then they are back out on the streets only to commit more crimes.
We hear time after time that we should give these same people a chance to improve their lives thru programs and education. But as the old saying goes “you can lead a horse to water but you can not make him drink” The same goes for what it seems to be the majority of these people we see go in and out of our prisons day after day, year after year.
We now have over 25,000 active warrants our for arrest of people for different types of situations. From child support to murder and including not showing up in court for their first appearance. If there was a swept of this city, door to door and we found all these people, where would we put them? Our jails would then be overcrowded again.
What is the answer to all this? You decide.