Police With Sawed-Off Shotguns for City
- Steve Barnett
- Jun 11
- 1 min read
From The Indianapolis News, Thursday, June 11, 1925: “Bullets for Bandits” will be the slogan of the proposed crusade to confront the growing menace of bank banditry in Indianapolis. With 24 bank holdups in the city in the last two weeks, a special meeting of the city’s safety board met this afternoon and Mayor Lew Shank issued orders for police officers, armed with sawed-off shotguns, to be stationed in each bank of the city for the protection of the banks until some other arrangements for protection can be made. Officers will be ordered to shoot to kill when bandits attempt to hold up a bank. “They will be told not to try to capture the bandits, but to shoot at once to kill,” the Mayor said motorcycle police will keep watch in the vicinity of banks in the residential districts.
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“Police With Sawed-Off Shotguns for City,” The Indianapolis News, 11 June 1925, p. 1:1
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