Posted on 02/08/2021 3:51:45 PM PST by lowbridge
Violent crime in Minneapolis soared by over 20% last year, calling into question a litany of criminal justice reform measures proposed by local left-wing lawmakers.
In total, the Minneapolis Police Department logged 5,422 violent crime incidents over the course of the year, an increase of 21% from the previous year and a substantial uptick from the city's five-year average of 4,496 violent crimes. Property crimes grew by 10%.
The news comes after the city announced a tripling of the budget of the Office of Violence Prevention, a pseudo-police replacement agency staffed with unarmed caseworkers to intervene in conflict. Virtually all of that money came from cuts to the city's police department.
"Law enforcement plays a critical role," said Minneapolis councilman Phillipe Cunningham, who helped lead the effort to secure more funding to the Office of Violence Prevention. "The Office of Violence Prevention is inherently collaborative. The public health approach is collaborative."
Cunningham's city saw some of the greatest destruction from this summer's civil unrest, sparked by the death of George Floyd, who died in the custody of Minneapolis police officers. Damage from rioters in Minneapolis cost local businesses and the city estimated hundreds of millions of dollars.
The City Council voted unanimously in June to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department completely and replace it with a "Department of Community Safety." Plans to go ahead with that initiative have lagged as both the mayor and other city leaders have questioned its wisdom.
"I believe in a comprehensive approach. That's what we're hearing from people," Mayor Jacob Frey said in June. "We are not hearing people want to dilute accountability by having the head of public safety report to 14 people."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Even the liberals know what will happen when the cops are called off...They know the crime explodes and their heads will roll....They are caught between the realists and the marxists....Tough place to be
A Hyperborean cultural crime surge.
I feel bad for the Somalians caught up in this violence...
Go Minneapolis, You Can Beat Chicago!!
Get Those Numbers UP!!
You can be Number One!!
They voted for these fools, they called those who had concerns against the somali-ization of their city racists....
They can live in their soiled nest...
This seems to be a theme across all USA Democrat run cities.
I personally don’t care about any of those cities, so I’m inclined to just stand aside and read about their misery. Country boys will survive.
I have completed changed my mind. I think liberal cities should fully defund the police 100%.
I think that cities that appreciate sanity should recruit those cops to relocate. I think conservative people should move to the sane cities as well.
One caveat, no allocation of police to help liberal cities should any mostly peaceful murders break out.
I could bring the crime rate down.
First, announce Constitutional Carry.
Second, announce that killings of felons will not be prosecuted or even investigated.
The new normal
Carjackings are up over 300% in liberal-run Minneapolis. If you’re smart you’ll avoid both Minneapolis and St. Paul.
No police? Their filthy political bosses unprotectected? Hmmm.😎
The Somolians brought their crime with them....Even the International Red Cross will not go into Somolia to provide Medical Support due to the crime there and have refused to do so for years.
I am afraid that we will have to cede a couple of these cities to warlords for a while so that the rest of the world to see that there is no such thing as “no police”. It’s going to be a hard lesson, but I don’t think it will really sink in any other way. People are already fleeing, and insurance companies are getting skittish. By the time November 2022 rolls around it should be a real show.
These cities had a President who was willing to help fix them, and they voted to impeach him instead in 2018, and used voter fraud to remove him in 2020.
As far as I'm concerned, they can reap what they sow. I don't care anymore.
Excellent news...
They made their bed... Let them lie in it...
Phillipe Cunningham...
This is only the beginning folks .... there is no upper limit on stupidity.
Agree.
I’m betting that they will run out of “caseworkers” before they run out of crime.
Minnekandahar and Minnesotastan are lost causes!
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