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

| June 21, 2021

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

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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FuzeVT

I’m going to try something new. Instead of trying to come up with the actual solution to any problem, I’m just going to insert what leftists would call my “right wing” talking points as an answer. Chances are, they would be way closer to an actual solution than anything they come up with using the same technique but with lefty view points as they so commonly do.

For example, “the crime rate in large, blue cities is caused by. . .”
> Infringing on law abiding citizens’ Second Amendment rights
> High taxation
> Critical race theory being taught to children to teach them to hate their country
> Congress abdicating it’s role as a law creation body to non-elected bureaucratic agencies
> The media being a mouth piece for leftist view points and lying about what conservatives want

Hey! Those ARE the cause of all those problems in those cities!

Jeff LPH 3, 63-66

this is great, so when the peaceful rioting and burning down buildings start, mayor frey can go in and join the fray without being a freyed

Green Thumb

When a few community safety specialists get wasted trying to break up a gang fight things will change.

And that is if they can get there on time after its called in by someone.

I can see it now: “Hey guys, cant we all just get along?”

Both sides immediately turn and then: Pow!

MustangCryppie

Kind of like this:

Anonymous

“We’re police officers. We’re not trained to handle this kind of violence.”

Roh-Dog

Seems like some of these successful shootings* could be filed under the ‘public service tab’ in the cold case cabinet.

*no bystanders, just idiots doing moronic things.

Hack Stone

Workplace violence. Being a professional hood rat can be detrimental to your well being.

Sapper3307

SSDD

KoB

“…nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure!”

Without pointing out all the elephants in the room, these mofos brought this situation onto themselves. I do have a slight measure of sympathy for those that feel that they are trapped and can’t get out. Tuff! You waited too long. Cut your losses, sell out for what you can get and GTFO. Most of us here have started over in another location, improvising, adapting, overcoming, and making a decent life for ourselves.

Maybe they should arm these Community Violence Interrupters with wire coat hangers, bags of marshmallows, boxes of graham crackers, Hersey Bars, and acoustic guitars. That way the gangbangers can sit around the burning buildings, make some s’mores, and sing Kumbaya.

rgr769

They need to get ready, “Mad Max Minneapolis” is coming soon. And it won’t be in a theater near them.

MustangCryppie

Where’s Snake Plisken when you need him?

STSC(SW/SS)

I have no sympathy for the folks of Minneapolis or the rest of Minnesota. They voted for the yahoos at the local and state level as well as sending a moron in chief to the White House.

This just the start folks it will get worse with each passing day as the criminals realize the Dems in charge don’t give a damn.

Graybeard

OK, with this and the next story, I’m about to decide that moving to some shiite-ho’e country would be a step up.

There are way to many stupid people in power.

Anonymous

Off course, Democrat solutions that not “elusive” will be disarming law-abiding people (not thugs) and National Police Force (Jahwohl, Comrade!) to bring “social justice” whether we like it or not.

OldSoldier54

I was going to say, these ding-dongs are dummer than a box of rocks, but I suddenly realized that rocks are much more intelligent than that.

All you silicon life-forms, please accept my sincere apology. 😛

A Proud Infidel®™

typical of D-rat politicians, they fucked it and won’t fix it. Maybe they need to recruit Drag Queen Squads to go perform wherever there’s a threat of violence?