Posted on 06/04/2020 10:20:18 AM PDT by plain talk
Budget meeting after budget meeting, they’d turn out with their petitions and signs, demanding the city put less money into its police department and more money into programs that stop crimes from happening in the first place – affordable housing, addiction counseling, violence prevention programs.
The council's been listening.
“I think we’ve had a vision for a while of wanting to see another kind of city response to those [911] calls,” says Council Member Steve Fletcher, whose Ward 3 covers parts of downtown.
Calls about mental health crises could be answered by mental health professionals. Calls about opioid abuse could be answered by addiction experts. Instead, both get cops, usually armed.
Their discussion is starting to sound a little more like what groups like Reclaim the Block and the Black Visions Collective have been saying for years. On Tuesday, Fletcher published a lengthy Twitter thread saying the police department was “irredeemably beyond reform,” and a “protection racket” that slows down responses as political payback.
“Several of us on the council are working on finding out what it would take to disband the Minneapolis Police Department and start fresh with a community-oriented, nonviolent public safety and outreach capacity,” he wrote.
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Sounds like a wonderful ideal.
Let them, Chicago, NYC, Boston, LA, ???? fire all of their evil cops and see how that works out.
Because Looters Matter.
Surrounding areas get out your guns and secure your perimeter. Keep the animals within thier sector
To: Minneapolis City Council members consider disbanding the police
“America, love it or leave it!”
I support it too, but only if they put concrete walls around the city and don’t allow anyone out.
They never will. They have muzz cops, and they will never fire them, because they kill unarmed, non-threatening White women who come to them for assistance.
Man, you’re on a roll. Too funny!!!!!
“”””””He assumed the position in 2017 after the previous police chief, a woman named Janeé Harteau,””””””””
Harteau was only hired because she was a flaming liberal lesbian.
The first civil war had the Mason Dixon line, this time it will be blue zones versus red.
Who grows the food?
Who brings it to the cities?
Exactly. Just have BLM and Antifa take over the role of the police department.
Would they rename to New Mogadishu?
Handing law-enforce and law patrols over to Moslem groups? Or maybe the UN? It is possible sheriffs could take over but, not the likely outcome of such a thing.
WOW, what a wonderful idea. Maybe like putting ANTIFA in power as a community law uninforcement organization. What could go wrong.
Get a load of this crap!
PING!!!
Just do a trial period, give the cops a month off paid.
WOW, what a wonderful idea. Maybe like putting ANTIFA in power as a community law uninforcement organization. What could go wrong. I can only thank the good Lord for me having the insight to leave this liberal lunacy city 12 years ago.
WOW, what a wonderful idea. Maybe like putting ANTIFA in power as a community law uninforcement organization. What could go wrong. I can only thank the good Lord for me having the insight to leave this liberal lunacy city 12 years ago.
Oh right...that’ll work like it did in Baltimore! Idiots!
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