Posted on 12/17/2021 3:51:17 PM PST by 4Liberty
The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) recently warned residents about new ways criminals are gaining access to peoples’ homes and luring them into carjackings.
The “department has seen an increase in robberies and specifically home invasions,” according to a recent email alert from the police. “Two or more suspects are following victims by car, to their home and robbing them. These suspects are reported to be armed and some victims have been physically assaulted.”
According to MPD, carjackings are so common that it’s no longer safe to exit a vehicle if it’s involved in a fender bender. MPD described “bumping into your car” as a means of “how carjackers lure victims.” After your vehicle is bumped, “you might be tempted to pull over — only to have your car taken,” the police warned. “Stay inside with the windows shut and the door locked and, if you feel a threat, drive to the nearest police or fire station.”
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Defund the police? Maybe not.
Fairly easy to get a carry permit in MN.
“drive to the nearest police”
That only works if BLM / antifa haven’t burned the precinct to the ground or the DA hasn’t told the police to stop dealing with trivial things like carjackings in the name of social justice or if your car is worth more than $950.
You keep voting for soros backed DAs and demoncrats and this is what you're going to get. Want it or not.
“MPD’s message also offered some safety tips to help Minneapolis residents avoid becoming victims of crime. For example, they advised people who carry weapons to keep them on their person. “The tool or weapon must be at hand at the moment needed (not in a bag, under the car seat or in the glove compartment) and you have to know how to use it properly,” the email said. Experts agree that if somebody chooses to carry a gun, the most responsible and effective way to do so is on one’s person, not in a bag or other receptacle — called “off body” carry.“
I guess the cops are saying, “Look, we can’t shoot them, be our guest”. “The tool”? I guess a tool belt with a 36” crowbar hanging on your hip might make the gun less thugs reconsider.
Defensive driving has taken on a new meaning.
In traffic I try to avoid being boxed in without a feasible escape route. When stopped at a red light, I stay at least 5 yards behind the car ahead of me.
Fast food Drive-thrus? Forget it. I avoid them.
If Sonny Corleone took your advice he might have lived to see his grandchildren.
I may be the only person here who has never seen The Godfather.
If you need a favor, he’s the man to see. ;-)
I didn’t see despite BlackElk (RIP) trying to make me watch the VCR version.
I hadn’t been interested, and told him I would wait to see such a masterpiece on the big screen. Well, there was an anniversary re-release in ‘96, so I went to see it. It lived up to billing.
The problem is that the vast majority of these thugs ain’t gunless.
Well, if you’re not carrying an anti-carjqcking tool, you’re pretty much SOL.
Is that photto staged? Dats whyte peeoples.
Is that photto staged? Dats whyte peeoples.
Godfather I and Godfather II….best movies ever.
Its worth watching.
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Minneapolis can not be salvaged.
The Leaders want racial healing gardens while women are being raped, and the people paying the taxes are Victims, or soon to be Victims.
I’ve been there recently and it’s only a matter of time. It will collapse. Schools are political indoctrination centers that provide food, and daycare.
11 yr olds car jacking, and you’ll have a new generation not wanting jobs and living out their lives that way.
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The politically incorrect headline:
Carjackings so common that police warn drivers against getting out of vehicle after fender bender without the weapons to kill all the hijackers
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