Posted on 10/11/2020 6:24:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The city of Minneapolis has a violence problem, and its leaders are looking for a way to control crime in the most humanized way possible.
The latest incident took place Friday night into Saturday morning, when three people were shot downtown, KARE reported.
“It hurts. I wish that I could find ways to help everybody feel more comfortable and more safe,” Councilman Steve Fletcher said.
Fletcher’s district, Downtown West, is the part of the city where the shooting happened.
Statistics from the Minneapolis Police Department show that in the past year alone, violent crimes rose by 20 percent, leaving many residents wondering how the city can put an end to these acts of violence.
The violence also comes with calls to defund or abolish the city’s police department.
“We have to be getting at the causes of crime. We have to be investing in people’s well-being and things that create conditions where people are drawn to committing crimes in the first place,” said Fletcher.
Fletcher says armed officers are necessary to address violent crime, but if the city is serious about reducing crime they need to take a more humanized approach.
“That means we have to address poverty, it means we have to address some of the relationships between people that are broken, and we’re putting resources out that are specialized in doing that,” said Fletcher.
City leaders said that they want to reach out to community members over the course of the next year to develop a “best practices” approach to prevent crimes.
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To all minnesotans...if you decide to move please leave your leftist loser attitudes behind. If you don’t, you aren’t wanted here. We don’t like that malignant BS here.
“Jesus is the Answer”, but He’s the answer they don’t want to acknowledge!
We are still the same violent barbarians that we were before the written word. To pretend otherwise is to deny Science. For proof one needs go no further than Portland.
Well maybe if ya just ask criminals nicely to please consider to committing crimes, things will be okie dokie
A lobotomy for the lefty members of the City Council would make the city a much safer place.
Police exist so that people choose the first option.
How would you address “poverty”?
Hello Mr/Ms/Mrs/It “Poverty”, can we speak to you?
Address povety by writing to them at “Poverty” c/o Gen. PO, Minneapolis, Minn. (Hey, it worked in the movie “A Christmas Miracle” or was it entitled “A Miracle on 34th Street”?
The PO got mail to Santa from all over the country.
In related news, they’re changing the name of their city to New Detroit.
This is exactly how my brother and I learned not to steal each other's toys, and it worked like a dream.
It will even reduced poverty. Criminals will learn that if they shoplift they will get their bare butts spanked and they will decide to work for money to pay for what they want. This is the best poverty reduction program available.
Talk about “Scared Straight”. That would be enough for them to give up their life of crime.
Beating the crap out of criminals; arresting criminals and prosecuting them; sentencing criminals to years in prison; IS the kinder and gentler way to treat your citizens.
When people feel safe and know that criminals are less likely to be around, there will be peace.
But people don’t have the stones to do the right thing very much these days.
I had to look up scaphism. Yes; that would work too but I wonder if the family of the victim should have a choice of this slow torturous execution or the faster pike method.
I think it is time to break out the popcorn.
They elect people like Steve Fletcher to say idiotic things like this; we can sit and watch and see how NOT to run our cities.
When Minneapolis is a pile of smoking ashes maybe they can start over. But I doubt it. I have found leftists don’t learn. They just spread out, like locusts, and spread their insane ideas to normal areas that function properly.
“We’ve come to your low tax, low crime area because it is so much nicer than the mess we’ve left. But we have ideas to improve it! You need social programs, higher taxes, and socialism! Won’t it be better...”
I thought these brainiac pukes already have, social workers
Here in NJ they are spreading the urban welfarian population out among the suburbs because there are no tax bases left in the cities; they can’t provide “services” anymore, so they are attaching the non-producing parasites to other taxpaying hosts. While it is viewed on FR as a move to dilute the conservative vote (and that is a consequence), it is primarily to provide funding for them.
Social workers bust up and disrupt families, thereby making criminals. Is this what they mean by “control crime”? Mafia bosses control crime, too.
Lesson from “The Twilight Zone”, “How to Serve Man!”.
That might work if you were policing more “humanized” criminals and not Feral Animals.
Happy COLUMBUS Day!!!
What became of the girl?
That’s a heck of a story!
Nance was killed by an intended victim
https://morbidology.com/the-serial-killer-killed-by-his-victim-wayne-nance/
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