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March 22, 2006

Grow Whines

Michael Zebuhr - the visitor from West Virginia who was shot in a robbery in Uptown Minneapolis last week - has died.

Joel Rosenberg notes Doug Grow's inevitable - and stupid - response:

Doug Grow, of the Star Tribune, weighs in with remarkable predictability. "Perverse as it was, if this crime had happened in a poor neighborhood, it wouldn't have dented the consciousness of most of us."

Oh, horseshit. Let's see . . . an innocent young person from a poor neighborhood, full of energy and promise, is killed for no vaguely good reason. Nobody would pay attention to that, right? Wrong.

Joel cites - correctly - the story of Tyesha Edwards. To which I'd add Daneisha Gillum, among others.
I got this strange idea. Instead of blaming the public for not caring, let's try blaming the criminals. And, beyond blaming, taking appropriate action to meliorate the crime problem. Much more effective than pious pronouncements about "feeling Jordan's pain."
Nah. To the Minneapolis DFL, the message is the medium.

Posted by Mitch at March 22, 2006 06:48 AM | TrackBack
Comments

You know it's hard out here for a pimp. When he tryin to get this money for the rent. For the Cadillacs and gas money spent. Because a whole lot of bitches talkin' shit.

Posted by: Eracus at March 22, 2006 03:16 PM

I know people want more police presence in the hood to stop these gangsters. I watch all this federal money come to our area to fight gang activity and I see it totally wasted. A couple of years ago millions spent to arrest I think it was 27 people in Frogtown for cocaine sales. Recently the Latin Kings busted for cocaine sales. How many millions did this cost, for what 20 something arrested. Has anyone ever heard of a " Volunteer Registered Reliable Confidential Informant "? They really exsist! These are citizens who volunteer their time to law enforcement to apprehend criminals. There use is controversial since they use drugs or sell them to win the confidence of the people they are investigating. They rarely get as much as a thank you from the police they are assisting, their names are never mentioned in reports (for many reasons). Often they do all the heavy investigative work and watch their allies in law enforcement receive all the glory of the bust and conviction. A person like this could cleanup the entire north side of Minneapolis with assistance from law enforcment in as little as one year. For under a $100000. I don't believe it is morally ethical to pressure an arrested person to become an informant in certain instances. The dirty little secret around town is that for years "snitchs" have been murdered numerous times in the metro area. Volunteer informants freely and knowingly accept the risk. Of coarse there is informants who have crossed the line of what is morally acceptable to investigate a subject, and this has contributed to the controversary of using volunteer informants. I'd like to see laws passed to nuture these types of people for their desire to serve. Set moral standards of procedure and provide more training to volunteer informants. I know some of you are saying we can't allow certain people to break the law to arrest others, well, wake up, law enforcment across the entire country already does!

Posted by: Bob Johnson at March 22, 2006 07:08 PM
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