With crime soaring, Minneapolis City Council flips on 'defund the police'
By: Post Editorial Board (New York Post)
Just a reminder, Joe Biden opposes defunding police (whatever that sound bite means). Joe Biden has a plan, a big beautiful plan , to throw more money at the police, establish commissions, and add social workers to the police beats.
Joe Biden is advocating a kinder, gentler way to ignore the problem of crime that communities are dealing with. At least the social workers will be on hand to empathize with the victims that politicians are ignoring.
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Months after caving to riotous mobs, the members of the Minneapolis City Council are complaining about the city's crime surge and insisting they never really meant it when they voted to defund the police department.
Councilman Phillipe Cunningham says the defunding measure is "up for interpretation," the New York Times reports, and now the council's majority has "interpreted that language differently."
Council President Lisa Bender claims, "Our pledge created confusion." Maybe she's confused, since she'd earlier been accusing cops of intentionally avoiding making arrests or otherwise enforcing laws.
Minneapolis City Council member Alondra Cano and her colleagues are complaining about the apparent results of their vote to defund the police department.AP
Indeed, much of the council complained to Police Chief Medaria Arradondo about the rise in carjackings, robberies, assaults and shootings. "Residents are asking, 'Where are the police?' " noted Councilman Jamal Osman, saying citizens "rely on MPD. And they are saying they are nowhere to be seen."
Arradondo, while vowing "to be responsive," said about 100 officers have quit or taken leaves of absence, more than twice the usual rate. (He didn't bother blaming the council's defunding vote.)
Just as in New York, the residents of Minneapolis are learning that "violence interrupters" are no help: To keep the peace, you need police.
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I'm old enough to remember when political attention on crime was focused on how the victims were treated and not on how the criminals were treated.
When did criminals become victims?
When Democrats needed votes, and turned criminals into victims.
Defund The Police is not so much anti-police as it is about using some funding normally used for police on alternatives like getting social workers and peace officers involved in minor domestic disputes, traffic offenses and neighborhood disputes instead of armed police officers who often escalate violence unnecessarily and are neither trained nor equipped to deal with family situations, mental illness etc...
Sounds to me like any place that has adopted this idea , wishes to have the current coverage ( public service0 , for a lot less money.
the unintended consequence of course is that public service is provided by people , whom have their own choices to make , and it does not nessisarily have to be because of finances . if doing the "JOB " is outweighed by other factors , then its becomes not worth it to those that will be doing the job.
I think , as the article states , there will be an increase in retirements , people taking other jobs in other jurisdictions , or getting completely out of the public service sector of LEO anyplace this becomes a question or an issue.
Put that way, that actually sounds like the beginnings of a good strategy because it doesn't decrease the number of cops or their resources. It seeks to reform. Defunding or disbanding the police is stupid.
I guess the advice the city council gave to citizens to give up your wallet, cell phone, keys, anything of value, to criminal isn’t working out?
Sure it is for the criminals- which is the reason why crime is on the rise.
Ok, i didn’t look at it from the dem perspective lol.