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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I wonder how long it will take the *armed* citizens of Minneapolis to realize that without police, it can be open season on rioters?
They burn down your business, take a throwaway AR15 with a banana clip and shoot 28 of them before throwing the rifle in the fire of somebody else’s business.
A few “mass shootings” of rioters will adjust the attitudes of a whole lot of people.
A rhetorical question.
How dare these people ask where the police? What a place of privilege they are coming from!
Retards
Karma MFer’s!
Every time a cop attempts an arrest, there is a strong possibility that the arrestee will something which will require deadly force in response.
Every black person killed by police will likely trigger another riot.
The solution is to ignore black crime, especially crime which only affects Democrats.
And so the monster starts eaating its own...
Anyone surprised?
“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.”
Like this outcome wasn’t foreseeable? Get a grip Ms. Bender. Fortunately for you liberals the Media will be running interference for you and fail to report your previous positions that created this situation.
Reap, meet Sow
I'm not sure he has any.
Cognitive dissonance?
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
"How dare you quit before we finish defunding you! The people are blaming us now!" :)
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