Posted on 09/16/2020 12:44:41 PM PDT by matt04
The meeting was slated as a Minneapolis City Council study session on police reform.
But for much of the two-hour meeting, council members told police Chief Medaria Arradondo that their constituents are seeing and hearing street racing which sometimes results in crashes, brazen daylight carjackings, robberies, assaults and shootings. And they asked Arradondo what the department is doing about it.
"Residents are asking, ‘Where are the police’?” said Jamal Osman, newly elected council member of Ward 6. He said he's already been inundated with complaints from residents that calls for police aren’t being answered.
“That is the only public safety option they have at the moment. MPD. They rely on MPD. And they are saying they are nowhere to be seen,” Osman said.
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The number of reported violent crimes, like assaults, robberies and homicides are up compared to 2019, according to MPD crime data. More people have been killed in the city in the first nine months of 2020 than were slain in all of last year. Property crimes, like burglaries and auto thefts, are also up. Incidents of arson have increased 55 percent over the total at this point in 2019.
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Council President Lisa Bender, who was among those leading the call to overhaul the department, suggested that officers were being defiant. Her constituents say officers on the street have admitted that they’re purposely not arresting people who are committing crimes.
“This is not new,” Bender said. “But it is very concerning in the current context.”
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This can’t be real. These people cannot be this stupid. They know what they have done, and expect their constituents are stupid enough to believe their lies.
Cue the Boo-Hoo girl!.
This is all really, really rich. Sheesh!
Might I suggest recalling the unfit elected officials.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/351#stat.351.14
Things were that way in Rock Ridge; so they called for Sheriff Bart...
(from Blazing Saddles) Reverend Johnson: Now I don't have to tell you good folks what's been happening in our beloved little town. Sheriff murdered, crops burned, stores looted, women stampeded, and cattle raped. The time has come to act, and act fast. I'm leaving.
“Kill da white farmers!”
“Where all da food at?”
Exact same thing happened on Baltimore. City threw the police under the bus, police said screw you, and looked the other way and all but stopped proactive work and took their time to respond to calls. Then the city wonders why crime increased and demands the police fix it.
[”Residents are asking, ‘Where are the police’?” said Jamal Osman, newly elected council member of Ward 6. He said he’s already been inundated with complaints from residents that calls for police aren’t being answered.]
Dear residents, the police aren’t there thanks to the Democrats you keep voting into office.
End of message. That is all.
(Hint to residents: There’s a CLUE in there. See if you can find it.)
“Where are the police?” Be careful what you wish for hits Minneapolis moronic communist city council with a vengeance.
Maybe if the mayor gives them another “bricks and mortar” station to burn that will solve the problem, right?
It’s amazing how stupid Democrats are.
They plot their own destruction. And are happy about it.
Until it comes knocking on their door, that is.
Where are the police?
What police?
Minneapolis wants to defund their police. Call a social worker. Or the Sharia Patrol.
“Oh my goodness they are street racing!! Yes there are accidents and yes there are deaths but if there was a list of important crimes this would be very close to the bottom.“
It’s a problem, because the cars are moving too fast to steal, carjack, or shoot at.
From top to bottom, Minneapolis - in much the same way as the State of MN - is run almost exclusively by 'Rats.
This is reimagined policing. You wanted it Minneapolis? You got it. Now shut up and take it.
I’m sure a social worker will step in any day now and talk with those street racers, carjackers, arsonists and murderers and discuss their feelings about why they need to shoot and carjack people.
I guess it’s really true that you can’t fix stupid.
I wonder how many of those lowlifes came to our country at Obama’s behest.
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