White Progressive Hipster Affectation #2

I more or less figured that the “Defund” initiative in Minneapolis was going to be a white progressive thing (along with “people of color” who work in the non-profit/industrial complex).

It’s been a long-time narrative-busting truism that people who actually live in crime-ridden neighborhoods want more police presence.

They’d like that presence to act fairly, to treat the locals with the respect due taxpayers in a free society, and to not get treated like criminals until proven otherwise – but they want law and order. Becuase while they may or may not put it in as many words, they understand something I razz libertarians for not getting; without some sense of order, prosperity is impossible; without prosperity, liberty is academic. (And, of course, order without liberty is onerous and tyrannical; that part, they get).

With that in mind, here are the result from Tuesday on the Defund the Police initiative:

I’m not in the least surprised of the intensity of support in the tony, boho Southeast (perversely, the darkest-green blob on the Northeast of the map), or hipster-plagued Northeast (again, perversely, the north central part of the map, and least of all Longfellow and the near South Side and the Wedge (the green splotches around the middle of the city); this is the home of the non-profiteers, the recent college grads and the like.

I’m a little shocked that the far Southwest, and the western border, were such strong “no” votes, though. Ward 11 – along the south dentral border – ejected Councilman Schroeder over this initiative. Democrats with money apparently believe they have something to lose after all.

Not surprising in the least? The North Side (actually the Northwest qjuadrant of the map) where the actual crime is curbstomped the initiative, taking down Philippe Cunningham (the far northwest part of the city) and almost Jeremiah Ellison in the process (just south of him).

When Don Samuels came out sounding like a Montana state legislator on the law-and-order subjects, I knew something was up. I had no idea it’d be this decisive.

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An idea: build a wall around the green areas. Withdraw all police and let the inhabitants figure out what to do. In five years bulldoze the ruins and build a nice park.

I have long felt that those who wish to not be policed by police, should be allowed to experience the consequences of their choice. It would be wonderful to see the MPD refuse to patrol and not respond to non-medical 911 calls from the areas that voted green in the above map.

Absolutely love, love, love this opinion piece from some leftist git in LA, the Strib decided to run as it’s post mortem editorial.

“McAuliffe evidently ran a lackluster campaign; among other shortcomings, not until the very end of campaign did he call out his opponent, Glenn Youngkin, for the openly racist themes of Youngkin’s campaign.

Youngkin said he will opt for tighter restrictions on abortion and tougher treatment of transgender students and on teaching about race. ”

Hell yeah man! More Racist cowbell…teach those MFers about race….cram it down their throats…pour it on those Wipipul…shout your abortions….turn that shit up to 11! Next time, have a platoon of Negro White supremacists march down the street, and light those damn tiki torches, for Gaia’s sake!! And get that tranny action going!
#Winning

It is the missing leg in the trifecta of police not policing / public prosecutors not procescuting / judges giving slaps on the wrist and/or early releases

I just noticed something else interesting: The ward containing Little Mogadishu (A.K.A. Cedar Riverside housing complex), where well over ten thousand of Ilhan Omar’s prime constituency live, heavily voted no on this one – the opposite of for what their representative so heavily campaigned and championed.

If you click on this direct link to the image above and then click it so it is magified:

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Look for the (dark red) triangle section just southwest of the word “Minneapolis” that is labeled over downtown, and it has CR-152 at the top of the triangle. Little Mogadishu is at the bottom of that trianglular ward. The southern curved border of that ward is I-94. The green section just to the east contains the West Bank of the U campus, including a large dorm, an old high rise that has been primarily off campus apartments for students, and a few newer nice apartment buildings. Go figure.

Maybe they’re sick of the Somali gangsters running rampant.

Interesting map and comments, Mitch. So, the ol’ polak workingman Nord’east, Edison High School area, is now hipster-plagued? Those poor people who’ve stuck it out there. I, my family, has some history in the area and I’ve known, worked with people who were born and raised in the area.

I’m amused how the the real monied areas vote no or hell-no. Even Linden Hills (where they’re always ready to pay more in taxes).

Even more amusing is that the Phillips neighborhood voted a weak no – but then, just south of them, Powderhorn Park made up for those fascists.

Do we know anything about the two new council members?

Well Bill C, they just re-sentenced an MPD Somali diversity hire’s sentence for shooting an unarmed White woman, wearing her jammies, in the chest to 5 years, and sentenced a White cop who was arresting a violent felon that died of an overdose of Fentanyl in the process, to 22 years…so the Sammi community is good to go with the justice system as it is.

Oops, southeast of Minneapolis, not southwest.

JDM: the old “Nordeast” Minneapolis, E-W from the river to Central, and N-S from Broadway to a block north of Lowry is now the “Northeast Arts District”. Yes, it is overrun with hipsters who were apparently too cool for Uptown. Picked up and dropped off a ton of them when I drove Uber/Lyft a couple years ago.

Kramarczuk’s is still around, but they have changed the diner menu to cater to the new crowd. My mother-in-law grew up in a Nordeast environment and mindset (altho she lived just outside of Mpls proper near 43rd/Central in Columbia Heights), and she will no longer eat at K’s diner. Everything she remembers from the old days is either gone or changed enough to taste differently.