Minneapolis City Council alarmed by surge in crime months after voting to defund the police

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Who elects these geniuses?

Veto-proof majority of Minneapolis City Council vows to disband police department

Minneapolis City Council alarmed by surge in crime months after voting to defund the police

Minneapolis Police Department’s crime data shows a rise in assaults, robberies and homicides

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Minneapolis City Council members, who just two months ago moved to eliminate the police department, sounded the alarm during a Wednesday meeting about a surge in crime seen by their constituents.

Council members pressed police Chief Medaria Arradondo about the uptick in crimes that included daylight carjackings, robberies, assaults, shootings and street racing.

“Residents are asking, ‘Where are the police?’” said Council Member Jamal Osman, noting that constituents’ calls to the Minneapolis Police Department have gone unanswered. “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.”

Council President Lisa Bender accused police of intentionally not enforcing laws or making arrests.

“This is not new,” Bender said. “But it is very concerning in the current context.”

Arradondo, who has served as police chief since 2017, called her comments “troubling to hear” and pledged to address 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.”

The Minneapolis Police Department’s crime data shows a rise in assaults, robberies and homicides, as well as property crimes and arson, according to Minnesota Public Radio. More people have been killed in the city in the first nine months of 2020 than those slain in all of last year.

Arradondo said about 100 officers have left the department or have taken a leave of absence since the start of the year, which is more than double the typical number of officers who either step down from the department or are inactive that year, MPR reported.

In July, the council took several steps toward dismantling the city’s police department, including approving an amendment to remove $1 million from the police department and reallocate it toward the health department to hire “violence interrupters” who are intended to defuse potentially violent situations.

The council had pledged earlier in the summer to dismantle the police department and replace it with a community-based system of public safety.

The council began focusing on police reforms after George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, died after a White Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for close to nine minutes.

Floyd’s death, which was captured in a widely circulated bystander video, sparked protests — sometimes violent — that spread across the country. The officers were fired the day after Floyd’s death. One officer, Derek Chauvin, is charged with second-degree murder, while the three other officers who were present have been charged with aiding and abetting.

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DemocracyRules2
DemocracyRules2
3 years ago

“Who elects these geniuses?”
Socialist tyrant culture elects them. Authoritarian socialists are very poor at consequential thinking, like all tyrants.
For example, the tyrant Iranians are simply stunned that the Gulf nations are making peace with Israel and the USA, and looking for military protection. And yet, last year Iran bombed a bunch of Saudi oil installations with cruise missiles, and caused multi billions in damage. But for some reason Iran has no idea why the Gulf nations feel threatened by them.

In the same way, tyrant socilsits hamstring the police, and then wonder why crime skyrockets.

I’m not sure why tyrants are so bad at consequential thinking, but it is extremely common.

curmudgeon  VN Veteran
curmudgeon VN Veteran
3 years ago

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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

Yes, I have met smarter trees than Biden.

curmudgeon VN Veteran
curmudgeon VN Veteran
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

I have actually used toilet bowl brushes that who were much smarter and had real usefulness.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

Nicely put!

disqus_xedx3FYiJm
disqus_xedx3FYiJm
3 years ago

Funny you should mention that…
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curmudgeon  VN Veteran
curmudgeon VN Veteran
3 years ago

Joe bought a yellow wig?

2bgreat
2bgreat
3 years ago

Stupid is as stupid does.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  2bgreat

Guess the residents there will have to get used to this –
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TD
TD
3 years ago

Why should they do their job, if your just going to put them in jail for doing it.?
no job is worth being charged for murder. They will quit.

Democrats are a bunch of dumbasses. It’s even on their logo.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
3 years ago
Reply to  TD

There … that’s better … now you should have 16000 upvotes unless Disqus deletes some of them before you get this memo … 😉

*** You and yours have a wonderful weekend, TD!

phoebe
phoebe
3 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

disasters all year long b/c the cabal is falling. yeah!!!!

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

Weren’t they told to stand down?
If that is correct, why bother to watch crime happen?
Did they really believe that defunding police would DECREASE crime.
If anything it will encourage MORE crime!
Are they really this DUMB – residents for voting them in and the city council?
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felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

One can only HOPE this is true!
A Border Collie puts DEMS to shame with intelligence.
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livingengine
livingengine
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

nice one

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  livingengine

My parents have a Border Collie and he is a smart cookie. He’s almost human.
He’s beautifully marked with papers. The only problem is he is a high octane dog and over fed. If he jumps up on you, he could easily knock you over.

Fount
Fount
3 years ago

Instead of “reimagining “ the police, let’s reimagine governance. Let’s create an America without radical subversive Leftists hell bent on destroying our country. Let’s imagine a penal colony where they can all be sent where they live out their psychotic dystopia far away from civilized human beings. We will also send all the criminals they love to live with them.

Reimagine that!

phoebe
phoebe
3 years ago
Reply to  Fount

Soylent green movie.

leonore35
leonore35
3 years ago
Reply to  phoebe

That was eating them

leonore35
leonore35
3 years ago
Reply to  Fount

I hate to suggest this but the Nazis’ Gestapo or SS had something called ‘protective custody’ Camps in other words. People always forget (or do not know) the original concentration camps were for German dissidents and criminals. If somebody was released they often waited outside the court and arrested them again.

Fount
Fount
3 years ago

Italo Calvino wrote a brilliant short story that captures the psychotic left wing mind set called, The Black Sheep. This is how it begins:

“There was once a country where everyone was a thief.
At night each inhabitant went out armed with a crowbar and a lantern, and broke into a neighbour’s house. On returning at dawn, loaded down with booty, he would find that his own house had been burgled as well.

And so everyone lived in harmony, and no one was badly off- one person robbed another, and that one robbed the next, and so it went on until you reached the last person, who was robbing the first…”

AlgorithmicAnalyst
AlgorithmicAnalyst
3 years ago

morons

leonore35
leonore35
3 years ago

Even blow moronic if that is possible. I hope come lection time the public will remember what their elected officials did

dingo
dingo
3 years ago

And then there are REAL Heroes, with their own compass’s, that the Media refuses to Honor
Highlights of the News
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2020/09/highlights-of-news_10.html
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curmudgeon  VN Veteran
curmudgeon VN Veteran
3 years ago
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Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
3 years ago

DUH!! You defund and dismantle the police and then wonder WTF?

This sounds like that snowflake that took over the Gillette corporation and then wonders why its sales have dropped after he insulted 50% of the US population with that crack about “toxic masculinity”.

patd
patd
3 years ago

Why are moronic libturd idiots always alarmed that their choices cause crime and poverty????

curmudgeon  VN Veteran
curmudgeon VN Veteran
3 years ago
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MAS
MAS
3 years ago

Well well well leftists, y’all crap your own nests and then wonder why it stinks? Oh and I don’t care how much the quisling police chief rides the department brass, line staff will continue to protect themselves…

LostAllSanity
LostAllSanity
3 years ago

I must give them credit where credit is due. I didn’t think anyone could achieve that level of stupid but they proved me wrong. Congratulations!

curmudgeon  VN Veteran
curmudgeon VN Veteran
3 years ago
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presterjohn1966
presterjohn1966
3 years ago

Ho ho ha ha hee hee ha ha! The city council is too stupid to waste time and energy on.

R
R
3 years ago

The city so called leaders took a knee. They also took stupid pills. Any village idiot could figure out that if you defund the cops the crime rate goes up.

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
3 years ago

What did you expect, Woodstock!

Oldhorseshoer
Oldhorseshoer
3 years ago

Marxists seem unable to understand that there is such a thing as “bad people”, and bad people do bad things. It’s that simple.comment image

oldschoolpatriot
oldschoolpatriot
3 years ago

I don’t see a problem. Instead of calling the police when there is a carjacking or robbery in progress, just pick up the phone and call the violence interrupter team. Problem solved!

ed
ed
3 years ago

Minneapolis City Council…..a VERY special kind of STUPID….

curmudgeon  VN Veteran
curmudgeon VN Veteran
3 years ago
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curmudgeon VN Veteran
3 years ago

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