Tarkington Park — Local services in Indianapolis

Took my grandchildren to this park and it was very crowded, but still fun for grandchildren, then all of a sudden children were running away from something, looked up and a lady was being verbally attacked by a group of children, then a group of children gathered around and a fight broke out, which made everyone there run and parents were gathering their children and leaving, there need to be security cameras and police riding or walking through the park for safety measures. You can't even go to the park and my grandchildren loves that park. Please do something about the safety of the people that attend the park and take their children. I live in the community. And it's a great park for the...

This park is disgusting. It has the potential to be nice, but it is damaged, littered, filled with vagrants, and people smoking pot. Lots of the benches have parts missing, trash is strewn everywhere, weeds grow in the mulch, graffiti covers the bathroom doors, and it’s generally a sad looking spot. It has so much potential, but it’s ruined by the people who misuse it. It could be such a bright spot in the neighborhood, but I do not feel safe bringing my children here. There even appears to have been a fire on the playground which melted the rubber. See photos attached. Splash pad was also recently vandalized and wasn’t running for a few months...

Park had trash all over the place and the playground equipment was raggedy and tore up. This is the park that everyone in the hood uses for a daycare they drop their kids off in the morning, leave them there all day unsupervised during the summer so you can't leave anything you own laying around for even a couple of minutes without somebody stealing it. Grown men acting like immature children playing games of dice and killing each other over their disputes of such. Just had a 11yr old kid shot over there and nobody will even come forward as to what happened. Don't let the news articles fool you, this is one of worst...