Posted on 09/17/2020 12:14:37 PM PDT by sevinufnine
Just 2 months after voting to DISMANTLE the police and SLASH its budget, city council members pressed the department's chief over a surge in crime prompting a GOP candidate to slam the laymakers as hypocrites. 'Residents are asking, where are the police?' Council Member Jamal Osman said on Tuesday, adding that calls to the police department from constituents have gone unanswered. 'That is the only public safety option they have at the momment. MPD. They rely on MPD. And they are saying they are nowhere to be seen.' Osman and other council members questioned police Chief Medaria Arradondo on Tuesday about the increase in crime, including daylight car jackings, robberies, assaults, shootings and street racing. But others noted that the council just recently slashed the police budget by $1.1million and also voted to amend the city charter that would allow for the dismantling of the entire police department.
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President of the Council Lisa Bender accused the police of knowingly not enforcing the law or making arrests. 'This is not new,' Bender said, 'but it's very concerning in the current context.'
Chief Arradondo said it was 'troubling to hear Bender's comments', and promised to raise the issue with departmental supervisors. 'We need to make sure that our communities know that we are going to be there, that we're going to be responsive,' he said. 'We've taken an oath to do that.' Johnson said the uptick in crime can be attributed to the political leadership of the city which voted to amend the city charter so that it would allow the police department to be dismantled after the May 25 death of George Floyd.
'All of those things have gone up and it is something that should have been expected, but it just shows you how out of touch our City Council is and our liberal government leadership here in Minnesota is,' Johnson said.
Arradondo said that about 100 officers have left the MPD or have taken leave of absence since the start of 2020 - more than double the number of officers who typically step down from the department or are inactive, according to Minnesota Public Radio.
As part of its several steps towards dismantling the MPD, Minneapolis City Council approved an amendment to remove $1.1 million from the department's budget and reallocate it toward the health department in order to hire 'violence interrupters'.
This came as part of the council's pledge earlier in the summer to dismantle the department and replace it with a community-based system of public safety.
Johnson ridiculed the idea of replacing cops with 'violence interrupters.'
‘violence interrupters’
Claymore mines?
‘Violence interrupters are not interrupting violence. What we need are trained career police officers. Anyone who suggested violent interrupters or suggested we demilitarize police or defund the police do not understand what it is like out here in our community in these streets,’ Johnson said.
Council member Phillipe Cunningham was critical of his fellow members during the meeting, and accused them of contradicting their previous statements when they called for the department to be dismantled. ‘What I am sort of flabbergasted by right now is colleagues, who a very short time ago were calling for abolition, are now suggesting we should be putting more resources and funding into MPD,’ Cunningham said.
GET RID OF THE FUZZIES ! !
That police chief should just play a tape of the councillors’ previous discussion of the police budget and walk out.
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There was a time when I would take a story like this, post it on my Facebook timeline, and just say “I need a Democrat to explain this thinking to me.” Now, I would probably get banned. That’s okay, I never got any takers on it anyway, just other conservatives piling on.
Literally insane or no-IQ humans.
Send in the social workers. Can't wait for one of these deranged city council members to get shot after they abolish the police like they already voted to do.
Police Departments work FOR the city under the control of duly elected mayors... It's the same with other city departments.... If citizens have a grip about city services they need to go to the source. YES, some mayors tell their police to stand down... it happens.
If people don't want to live in violent hellholes they need to STOP electing democrat mayors.
Why would cops endanger themselves to protect people who want to punish them?
Minneapolis is getting what it voted for.
A one man breeding machine?
“’Now they’re turning around and blaming these brave officers for a situation that they have created.”
Democrat party playbook 101.
They defund the police then wonder where they are? Blames Chief??
Here’s an idea. Post a photo of you holding a fake Trump head and it will go viral on FB. LOL. You’ll never be banned for life.
Well I have four kids myself.
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