INDIANAPOLIS -- Indianapolis metro police and Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett have long preached that the key to fighting crime in Indianapolis’ neighborhoods is for residents to step up with solutions and programs to protect themselves.

Six such community crime fighters were honored with a luncheon at the International Community Center in advance of National Night Out Against Crime events across the city tonight.

Sylva Zhang of the Ransom Place Neighborhood was honored as the Downtown Crime Fighter of the Year.

”I think that relationship is what makes people willing to give up their Monday night to meet together on a Zoom call and kind of figure out like, ‘How are we going to deal with this gun violence issue? Let's see who we can bring in here and what can we do to prevent these kinds

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