Shootings nearly double in Minneapolis year over year, local paper says “solutions elusive”

This is literally the nicest car in all of Minneapolis

“Stupid is as stupid does,” a simple but wise man once said. Could also be “Stupid is as stupid votes” in Minneapolis. In the “fiery, but mostly peaceful” (© CNN) protests from the death of a violent convicted felon and drug fiend last year, the Minneapolis Police Department has seen record numbers of officers leave or retire. The largest police department in the state is dangerously understaffed. Their already low numbers at the beginning of 2020 have dwindled another third lower. Anyone with a lick of common sense could see that this will result in more crime. In all this “defund the police” nonsense they should really invest some money in a roving undertaker that can drive a hay wagon down the street ringing a bell and yelling “Bring out your dead!”

The Star Tribune reports on the rise of gunshot violence (to the tune of 90% increase this year over last). Homicides last year rose to 84 from 48 in 2019. They’re on pace to exceed 2020. They say “From Portland to Baltimore, cities across the country saw shootings and homicides soar in 2020, a trend that has continued in the first half of this year.” The article goes to great lengths to lay blame for the violence anywhere but where it belongs;

• It’s the weather: “[Minneapolis] faces a depressingly familiar problem: how to curb surging violence as the weather warms.”
• It’s “rising gun sales”
• It’s “entrenched inequality”
• It’s “frayed relations between communities and law enforcement” (greatly stoked by politicians, namely all of the city council [most especially Jeremiah Ellison, son of Keith Ellison] and the tacit or passive support of the mayor)
• Lastly, of course, it’s COVID; “all made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has disproportionately impacted communities of color.”

What solutions does the Glorious Leader of Minneapolis have in mind? You’ll love this;

Mayor Jacob Frey and other city leaders say they are focused on reducing crime during the summer months, deploying teams of violence intervention workers

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Frey joined [Minneapolis Councilman] Ellison to discuss a proposed initiative that called for having unarmed “community safety specialists” patrol the hardest-hit neighborhoods.

There you have it. Unarmed “community safety specialists” (whatever the hell that means) are going to solve your gang warfare. We already have community safety specialists. They wear blue suits, drive black and white cars, and go out and save lives and stop crime every day.

Last December, the City Council voted to divert roughly $8 million from the Police Department’s $179 million budget to other services — $1.1 million of which went to expanding the MinneapolUS program, which sends “violence interrupters” to defuse conflicts. After months of training, the first group hit city streets in June.

You know who are great “violence interrupters”? COPS!!! The limousine liberals and those who come in from the safety of the suburbs to “protest” are either protected by a funded and staffed police department or hire private security. They do not have to live in the reality of the policies they support. The sad reality for those stuck in Minneapolis (you know, “disproportionately communities of color”), it takes a lot of innocents dying before they see the light. It’s already started;

Like the recent child victims and the St. Thomas student, a growing number of those struck by gunfire are innocent bystanders, police say. The carnage has included the shooting of a youth soccer coach who was leading practice when a wayward bullet struck him in the rib cage. Another three people were shot, two fatally, when gunfire broke out during street racing events. And a 53-year-old man was shot in the neck, caught in the crossfire of the occupants of two cars shooting at each other.

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