The Joneses

“Police Reform” is suddenly the hot ticket in Minneapolis’ mayoral “race”:

State Rep. Ray Dehn has called for police to be “disarmed.”

Mayor Betsy Hodges just ousted her embattled police chief.

Nekima Levy-Pounds is demanding a “paradigm shift” in police culture in Minneapolis.

Police reform is suddenly moving to the forefront of the race for mayor in Minneapolis, propelled there most recently after an officer on July 15 shot and killed an unarmed woman, Justine Damond, who had called 911 to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home. Candidates for mayor, a job directly responsible for the police department, are scrambling to explain to voters how they will change the Minneapolis Police Department and prevent civilian deaths at the hands of cops.

My two cents:  empty fairy-land gestures, “sending messages” and organization-speak are what they amount to now, and all they’ll ever amount to.   It’s DFL politics.  The message is the medium.

8 thoughts on “The Joneses

  1. As Mayor, I promise the city will hire the best qualified candidate for every city job regardless of race, creed or color.

    I promise the city will devote whatever resources it takes to make sure every city employee has the ability and attitude to promptly and professionally serve our customers.

    I promise to reform the police department to ensure our employees faithfully enforce the law even-handedly and firmly.

    The war is over, the time is now, the year is 1945, my name is Hubert Humphrey and I approve this message.

  2. Disarm the police? Oh my, sounds like someone wants a sequel to the North Hollywood Shootout set in Minnesota.

  3. “State Rep. Ray Dehn has called for police to be “disarmed.””

    Bwahaha! Since I don’t have to suffer the consequences any longer, I’ve become quite fond of watching leftist city governments operate. Hugely entertaining…you really don’t know what they will do next, or why.

    Hell, I might put on a sombrero, jump into a Northbound 40′ trailer and head up there to vote for Dehn…he’s sure to be at least as entertaining as Trump, and it won’t cost me a dime.

  4. I wonder if Dehn would allow your coppers to carry Super Soakers, and (after careful training, naturally) take the orange tips off them.

    Bwaaahahahaa!

  5. “Resolved: This house believes criminals shall be armed, and police and ordinary citizens shall be disarmed.
    “Any takers on the pro side? Mr. Dehn, I see that you have raised your hand.”

  6. Seem to remember that after The Honorable Richard J Daley of Chicago’s kid Mayor Richard M Daley installed a network of cameras to spy on people of color that some Speak! Truth! To! Power! type (certainly not a member of the Democrat Party Dominated Media Culture given the Daley family’s party affiliation) made a point of asking The Honorable Richard J Daley of Chicago’s kid Mayor Richard M Daley if he would allow a 24/7 camera in his office and the office of Chicago’s aldermen since historically as much or more crime happened in those places as it did where the people of color lived.
    Maybe it’s time to ask Mayor Hodges and the other Mayoral candidates (including Captain Jack Sparrow, remember him?) to go without armed protection and that the police not carry guns just as these anti-2A, anti-civil-rights politicians require of the no intention of illegally possessing or using a firearm citizens of the City of Lakes.

  7. Disarm the police? Oh my, sounds like someone wants a sequel to the North Hollywood Shootout set in Minnesota.

    If it were only one, that would be one thing, but it’s not like anyone who reads the papers ought to be unaware that there are a bunch of people in most cities who would be willing to use “superiority of force” on the police. So this is really a profile in cluelessness.

  8. Paradigm shift? Can you define that please, Nekima, and explain how it relates to the current BLM vs the police controversy? And you’re guilty of cultural appropriation when you jump on the Justine Damond shooting. Has nothing to do with you.

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