IMPD Says 2025 Push Drove Big Seizures and Arrests as Homicides Declined
The department cites district-based specialty teams using intelligence-led tactics, with community tips fueling many investigations.
Overview
- Year-end figures show 1,976 firearms recovered and nearly 2,800 arrests in 2025, up sharply from 847 guns and more than 1,300 arrests in 2024.
- Teams also seized large quantities of narcotics — including about 75,685 grams of methamphetamine, 6,280 grams of heroin and fentanyl, 10,790 grams of cocaine, and roughly 10,000 pills.
- Operational outputs included 128 stolen vehicles recovered, over 2,400 interviews conducted, and more than 800 search warrants served.
- IMPD reports 131 criminal homicides in 2025 compared with 163 in 2024, a decline the agency links to intensified enforcement and proactive interventions.
- Separately, the Indiana Crime Guns Task Force reported seizing 346 illegal firearms — including 186 machine gun conversions — more than 120 pounds of narcotics, nearly $208,000, and making 312 arrests in 2025.