The article doesn’t say, but, I’d bet that a few city council members have had crime and/or threats committed against themselves, their friends, their neighbors, their businesses, or their neighborhoods, and are suddenly Concerned
With violent crime on the rise in Mpls., City Council asks: Where are the police?
The meeting was slated as a Minneapolis City Council study session on police reform.
But for much of the two-hour meeting, council members told police Chief Medaria Arradondo that their constituents are seeing and hearing street racing which sometimes results in crashes, brazen daylight carjackings, robberies, assaults and shootings. And they asked Arradondo what the department is doing about it.
“Residents are asking, ‘Where are the police’?†said Jamal Osman, newly elected council member of Ward 6. He said he’s already been inundated with complaints from residents that calls for police aren’t being answered.
“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,†Osman said.
Just months after leading an effort that would have defunded the police department, City Council members at Tuesday’s work session pushed chief Medaria Arradondo to tell them how the department is responding to the violence.
Isn’t this the city that the council wanted with their defund push? And the meant “defund”, not reduce funding and numbers. What do they think would happen when they demonized every single police officer in Minneapolis? That they would be happy to be sh*t on by elected officials who are threatening their jobs? Let the city deploy all sorts of social workers or whatever they want to call the non-armed civilians they’ve been talking about. Let’s not forget how many have applied for retirement and/or simply resigned over the past months. It is expected at the MPD will lose 20% of its workforce. It won’t be easy replacing it.
Council President Lisa Bender, who was among those leading the call to overhaul the department, suggested that officers were being defiant. Her constituents say officers on the street have admitted that they’re purposely not arresting people who are committing crimes.
“This is not new,†Bender said. “But it is very concerning in the current context.â€
Nothing like insulting the officers you want to defund, eh?
Despite the uptick of crime in his ward, Cunningham, who supports the creation of a new community safety agency to replace the police department, said it’s particularly important now to start instituting some of those public health-based approaches to violence prevention. Recently, the council took more than $1 million from the police budget to hire “violence interrupters†to intervene and defuse potentially violent confrontations.
Well, good luck with that.
The Black Futures Lab, a venture of Black Lives Matter founder Alicia Garza, is sponsored by the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA), an organization that works with China’s communist government to push its agenda in the United States.
The Black Futures Lab donation page explicitly states they are “a fiscally sponsored project of the Chinese Progressive Association,†explaining where donations to Black Futures Lab are funneled.
Founded in 1972, the Chinese Progressive Association educates, organizes and empowers the low income and working class immigrant Chinese community in San Francisco to build collective power with other oppressed communities to demand better living and working conditions and justice for all people.
China has tentacles all over the United States. They are the biggest threat to democracy ever. In the History of the USA nothing has promised to undermine the very pillars this country was founded on that the CCP of CHINA.
Do not believe a word coming out of the leftist apologists mouths. They have been brainwashed by the CCP of CHINA to stoke revolution in America. Most do not even realize they are defending a ruthless regime that has murdered 100 million of their own citizens and does not allow for one ounce of freedom on their own city streets.
This is the sad news that is BLM and Antifa and a 100 other leftist organizations all trying to undermine American’s faith in its own institutions. The reality is that they have succeeded and even our own 3 letter agencies are at the very moment trying to goad Trump into another war with false information. Or at least suspect information. You know. Like there were nukes in Iraq, Yellow cake in Africa etc. etc.
BUSH was blamed for believing the 3 letter agencies giving him MIC information. Now they have been hard at work trying to get Trump to attack Iran, Syria.
Did you know under Obama we went from wars in two countries to wars in SEVEN COUNTRIES? Guess who was bought and paid for by the MIC and misled by the 3 letter agencies?
Did you know Obama dropped over 100,000 bombs during his Eight years in office. That was more than Bush Dropped in two wars in his eight years. Did you know the US Military ran out of bombs while Obama was in office?
I am not trying to bash Obama. I point this out to point out that the forces are powerful, the billionaires tentacles are deep in our government and only Trump has ever dared to stand against these people.
Trump is correct. They are coming for you except he is standing in the way.