Posted on 09/15/2021 5:00:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
They came out with an important investigative report showing shockingly collapsed numbers of police responses to crime in Minneapolis. But they called the damning data "complicated."
In the wake of the rabid left's demonization of police, the "Ferguson effect" has come onto Minneapolis with a vengeance since the death of petty criminal George Floyd while in police custody.
That's news. But despite statistics like this:
In the year after Floyd’s death on May 25, 2020, the number of people approached on the street by officers who considered them suspicious dropped by 76%, Reuters found after analyzing more than 2.2 million police dispatches in the city. Officers stopped 85% fewer cars for traffic violations. As they stopped fewer people, they found and seized fewer illegal guns.
...and this:
In May, the most recent month for which complete records were available, officers initiated about 58% fewer encounters than they did in the same month the year before.
The number of traffic stops they conducted was down 85% over the same period. Business checks — in which officers stop at a business to talk to employees and customers — were down 76%. The number of people the police stopped for acting suspiciously also dropped 76%.
Reuters is befuddled.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
As Margaret Thatcher once said: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
Aussies do do a Hell of as job enforcing their border though. Got to give then that.
The Chauvin trial was a lynching. I suspect the Federal trial will also be.
I lived in a Minneapolis home for 40 years. 39 of those were great. In 2020 the city collapsed thanks to the mayor and our governor, then followed up by the city council (clownsill according to the morning drive radio hosts). We received a letter from the Chief of Police that said they could not guarantee a response to a 911 call.
We sold our house and moved a little beyond suburbia.
The authors obviously did their homework, producing a first class investigation. Doubtless, they drew the correct conclusions. But when it came to produce the results, they were probably told by the editors, who get edicts from higher up, that they could publish the work, but needed to fudge the conclusions. (Or, my favorite copout with fiction writers, “let the reader draw his own conclusions.”) The thing is, when you’re in a hierarchical organization, if you don’t do what the boss wants you need to find another job. Most people are maxed out, living paycheck to paycheck and not bringing home that paycheck is unacceptable to the wife. One reason I retired modestly successfully is I always lived like I’d be fired that day. Or, I’d have to say, “that’s illegal and I won’t do it.”
Australians gave up most of their guns over 20 years ago. Armed rebellion is unlikely and the government knows it. (Which is exactly why they were disarmed.)
My tagline for the US.
As soon as the coroner said that kneeling on his neck contributed to Floyd's death then charges were inevitable. And appropriate. It was up to the defense to show that Floyd would have died, kneeling or no kneeling, and they didn't do that.
“Only liberals are baffled by the obvious.”
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To get the the border in the first place you need to cross hundreds if not thousands of mile of ocean. Once ashore you've got monster crocodiles and a dozen different kinds of snakes that would kill you in short order. With those kind of benefits enforcing the border is a piece of cake.
Any state living on the backs of only those reporting legal income means it is financially incentivizing sloth and crime at the expense of reimbursable legal work. Such states will continue to go down the tubes.
I am 70. I filled out the on-line form to see if I qualified to immigrate to Australia some years ago and easily qualified. Basically, I have adequate independent income (pension and Social Security) and savings. But at 70, why bother? It’s my grandkids I worry about. They do not have any private income, and I cannot provide it for them.
In my youth, I wanted to at least visit Australia. Not now, have you seen the dictatorial hellhole they've got now? Lockdowns, mandates and huge camps for quarantines. We are absolutely liberated compared to what's happening there.
The covid jab threat has me doing the same.
More and More Australians Are Seeking to Leave the Country (and being denied)
If you want to move to a totalitarian police state, why not immigrate to Cuba? It's a lot closer.
Cuba probably has a brighter future than Australia.
Cubans already live in “progressive” ruins, so they have nowhere to go but up...
It will probably take Australia another generation to look like Cuba—first they turn the population into prisoners, and then the prisoners learn how to fake working.
Yeah we get all that. But they have plenty of issues with illegal immigration. But they collect them all up and drop them into camps in Papua New Guinea. No one gets to come in for free and then get put up in hotels.
Here is a liberal slant to Australia’s illegal immigration practices... Sounds about right to me.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/trump-morrison-australia-immigration-manus-nauru.html
If any citizen in Minneapolis has a problem with a criminal, they need to call the mayor or the local Democrat party boss because they’re responsible for the problem.
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