{"id":2383,"date":"2020-11-16T11:32:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T19:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2020-11-16T13:55:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T21:55:37","slug":"defunding-the-police-minneapolis-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=2383","title":{"rendered":"Defunding the Police, Minneapolis Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

While, as Mike notes<\/a>, other cities are making ready to defund their police, Minneapolis has a head start.\u00a0 Here are the results, as reported by none other than the Washington Post.\u00a0 Its headline is, “Minneapolis violence surges as police officers leave department in droves.”<\/a>\u00a0 The story underneath the headline doesn’t get any better; instead, it gets considerably worse.<\/p>\n

Here’s how it starts:<\/p>\n

MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 The sound of gunfire has become so familiar across North Minneapolis that Cathy Spann worries she has grown numb to it.<\/p>\n

Day and night the bullets zip through this predominantly Black neighborhood, hitting cars and homes and people. The scores of victims have included a 7-year-old boy, wounded in a drive-by shooting; a woman who took a bullet that came through her living room wall while she was watching television with her family; and a 17-year-old girl shot in the head and killed.<\/p>\n

Spann, a longtime community activist who works for the Jordan Area Community Council, cannot recall another time when things were this bad \u2014 not even when the city was branded \u201cMurderapolis,\u201d during a spike in violence in the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n

The police are not as much a presence as they used to be, Spann said, noting that sometimes when neighbors call 911, officers are delayed in responding or don\u2019t come at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to talk about pandemics, we\u2019re dealing with a pandemic of violence,\u201d Spann said on a recent afternoon, just as word came of two more nearby shootings. \u201cWe\u2019re under siege. You wake up and go to bed in fear, because you don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen next. .\u2009.\u2009. And our city has failed to protect us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The most basic function of government is to safeguard the lives of its citizens.\u00a0 Minneapolis’s failure to do so is nothing short of grotesque.\u00a0 And as usual, those hit first and worst are minorities\u00a0 —\u00a0 exactly those in whose name the “Defund” groups claim, with their usual snickering deceit, to be acting.<\/p>\n

Nearly six months after George Floyd\u2019s death here sparked massive protests and left a wide swath of the city burned and destroyed, Minneapolis is grappling with dueling crises: an unprecedented wave of violence and droves of officer departures that the Minneapolis Police Department warns could soon leave the force unable to respond to emergencies.<\/p>\n

Homicides in Minneapolis are up 50 percent, with nearly 75 people killed across the city so far this year. More than 500 people have been shot, the highest number in more than a decade and twice as many as in 2019. And there have been more than 4,600 violent crimes \u2014 including hundreds of carjackings and robberies \u2014 a five-year high.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But wait!\u00a0 You can already hear it coming from the usual Leftist sources:\u00a0 “Correlation is not causation.\u00a0 We need to take a deep breath and wait until all the facts are in.”<\/p>\n

Question:\u00a0 How dumb do they think we are?\u00a0 Answer:\u00a0 Is there a limit?<\/p>\n

Minneapolis police say they have struggled to respond. They have faced a surge of officer departures in the wake of Floyd\u2019s death and the outcry against police. In June, a city council majority vowed to defund and dismantle the department and replace it with a new agency focused on a mix of public safety and violence prevention \u2014 a move that could go before voters in 2021.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So we’ll soon see whether Minneapolis residents are into collective suicide.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the unjustified and unfortunate death of George Floyd, the city council has engaged in rhetoric that has emboldened criminals, the proof of which is in the unprecedented spike in crime,\u201d said George Saad of southwest Minneapolis, describing himself as an immigrant and a \u201cchild of war\u201d who came to the city because of its rich diversity. But now Saad says he feels terrorized in his own community, afraid to walk down the street.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou guys have had years to address any culture problems within the Minneapolis Police Department,\u201d he said. \u201cYou have failed to do so. Instead, you embark on a campaign against your own police department, fighting and demonizing an entire internal city organization instead of making it better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Karen Forbes, of South Minneapolis, told council members how bullets burst through her living room wall on a recent night, narrowly missing her head. \u201cI have relived that night many times, hearing the sounds of the bullets hitting my radiator and drywall spraying everywhere,\u201d Forbes said.<\/p>\n

Like many during the hearing, Forbes questioned the lack of police officers on the street and blamed the city council for pursuing what she described as a \u201csociology experiment that obviously doesn\u2019t work.\u201d She and others called for a surge of law enforcement into the city.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We have seen the future of defunding because it’s already here.\u00a0 The idea that it’s being done to help minorities is one of the more breathtaking lies I’ve seen in decades in public life.\u00a0 It’s not bringing help.\u00a0 It’s bringing death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While, as Mike notes, other cities are making ready to defund their police, Minneapolis has a head start.\u00a0 Here are the results, as reported by none other than the Washington Post.\u00a0 Its headline is, “Minneapolis violence surges as police officers leave department in droves.”\u00a0 The story underneath the headline doesn’t get any better; instead, it gets considerably worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policing"],"yoast_head":"\nDefunding the Police, Minneapolis Edition - Crime & Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=2383\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Defunding the Police, Minneapolis Edition - Crime & Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While, as Mike notes, other cities are making ready to defund their police, Minneapolis has a head start.\u00a0 Here are the results, as reported by none other than the Washington Post.\u00a0 Its headline is, “Minneapolis violence surges as police officers leave department in droves.”\u00a0 The story underneath the headline doesn’t get any better; 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