Prediction
By Mitch Berg
As crime plummets nationwide, Minneapolis and Saint Paul are getting more dangerous.
And the neighbors are getting antsy:
Minneapolis Police are pledging once again to improve safety in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood, following an attempted abduction this month and a reported sexual assault in August.
The sexual assault happened after police say a man broke into a home. The attempted abduction happened in a parking lot of a property on 6th Street Southeast, where a University of Minnesota student told police a man tried to grab her as she was taking the trash out last Thursday morning.
“That’s very serious and very scary, and traumatic,” 2nd Precinct Inspector Todd Loining said.
Loining told a group of neighbors on Monday that the attempted abduction happened at the same building as a reported shooting in February. That shooting, part of a string of crimes this winter, prompted police to increase patrols in Marcy-Holmes.
So there’s some alarm about the surging crime stats.
And what will every last one of those people do next election time?
Vote DFL, naturally.
September 18th, 2019 at 2:04 pm
Would that be the same DFL officeholders that want to reduce the number of police on the streets, eliminate back-ground checks on your future neighbors, and who’s policies have priced jobs out of the market? That DFL?
September 18th, 2019 at 2:26 pm
Crime is not the problem, the lack of diversity among criminals is. We need more white female muggers.
Get with it, Ladies.
September 18th, 2019 at 2:33 pm
It’s a given that there will never again be a Republican mayor in Minneapolis or St. Paul. So you’re good on that ‘prediction’.
If the crime wave continues as it likely will, there probably will be some space for a muscularly public safety minded DFLer to win the Mayor’s office in St. Paul. I doubt the same can be said for Minneapolis. In Minneapolis you’ll always get lefty women and the equivalent of guys with man buns winning the mayoralty.
I don’t know about that premise that Minneapolis and St. Paul are under-policed. There’s a proper expectation that a public plaza need not have beat cops present in daylight hours lest it be occupied by gangs of thugs. Something else has happened, obviously…
September 18th, 2019 at 3:28 pm
I grew up near Gary, IN, and I seem to remember that one time when things got really out of hand there, the state sent about 50 state patrol officers to help things. Now in a city as wealthy as Minneapolis, I don’t believe the state ought to subsidize them further, but I can see a rider in an appropriations bill that deducts part of their state aid to pay for the police to come in. Put gently, at a certain point, you tell the brats that this time, the adults are going to be in charge, because the kids’ mess is spilling into the suburbs and is hurting the adults.
Or, put more bluntly, you want to s*** in your own sandbox, fine, but when I start finding your waste in my yard, we’re going to have a talk.
September 18th, 2019 at 5:09 pm
It’s funny how when DemocRAT party apparatchiks don’t get their way during budget time, the first service that they threaten to cut, is police/public safety. Such is the case with the current “budget” discussions with the Minneapolis Park Board stooges.
September 18th, 2019 at 5:36 pm
Given what NW wrote (reminded me of), I see no reason to help Mpls at all. Rider or not. The denizens of that city deserve to stew in their own juices.
September 18th, 2019 at 5:57 pm
So, Minneapolis reprobates are attracting and facilitating violent criminals that are preying on their weak, dim witted citizens. At least they don’t have 20,000 drug addled losers sh*tting on the sidewalks.
You wipipul are never satisfied, are you?
September 19th, 2019 at 10:26 am
Minneapolis officer blames city’s ‘ultra-left agenda’ for failure to add cops to combat crime spree. He must be near retirement.
“The chief, who [the city council] unanimously appointed to this position, laid out a well-made plan to increase our department to the size that it should be to perform our core services and provide public safety,” [Lt Bob Kroll] said earlier in the interview. “None of them [on the city council] want to go forward. They think that they know policing better than the person that they’ve put in charge of the police department.”
September 19th, 2019 at 10:51 am
It might be the case the council has rightfully sized up the MPD as an unchecked paramilitary agency with malevolent tendencies, unworthy of augmenting with 10 or 50 new hires that are barely literate and otherwise capable of working in other vocations. They’d be right.
Bob Kroll is not an admirable or credible officer, and cops certainly aren’t a solution. Its the feral enclaves of feral people in the city….
September 19th, 2019 at 11:34 am
Minneapolis cops are the Minnesota version of The Brute Squad, sent into feral enclaves of feral people and whaddya know, violence ensues.
I know! Let’s change the hiring requirements for Minneapolis cops.
Instead of a Peace Officer’s license, let’s demand a Social Worker’s license. Send 50 new Social Workers into North Minneapolis every night. They can chill with gangstas and rap about their feelings. Maybe have a drum circle and dance wearing giant paper mache heads. No danger that residents of color who were just turning their lives around might be wrongfully victimized.
Dang, why didn’t anybody think of that before?
September 19th, 2019 at 12:12 pm
Kroll has not played nice with Council – or anybody, really – for quite some time. He’s a union hack from Central Casting.
September 19th, 2019 at 12:42 pm
That’s two now who have denigrated the messenger instead of the message. So, I think I know JohnK’s position, but is the chief’s plan a bad one or not?
I’m just asking. I have a lot of history with Mpls but I’ve never lived there. I do see that many of the things that make up my history there have not been, um, cared for, so I don’t go back much and would never live there.
September 19th, 2019 at 12:55 pm
What’s Arradondo’s plan… he wants 400 more guys in 5 years.
In theory, sure, 400 more guys means 400 guys doing more policing and crime busting.
It’s about a $50M annual expenditure, and its not obvious that the candidates exist even with MPD being the highest paying agency around.
So is it a ‘good’ plan? Whats he going to do besides advocate for more resources… its never not the answer.