All In The Timing
By Mitch Berg
The Minneapolis Police have problems.
It’s been the most open secret in the world for as long as I’ve lived in the Twin Cities. Minneapolis cops leaning on black and minority drivers, being more willing to take off the gloves when operating in black neighborhoods – this was news in the mid-80s. It’s like most police departments – a few bad apples among a lot of good cops – only seemingly moreso.
Minneapolis has problems.
If you didn’t see it three years ago, you should have noticed it in the past two years. They had a city council president who said in as many words that expecting law and order came from a place of “privilege” (a privilege she was happy to enjoy with $1K a day in taxpayer-funded private security, of course), and a council that backed that up with policy, to the point whereJacob Freaking Frey looks like a law and order conservative (whenever there’s not a crisis, anyway).
It’s a city that seriously believes the answer to crime is to transfer more taxpayer money to “community” “non-profits” – the same people who’ve been profiting from the status quo, and code for “the DFL’s political farm team”. (It’s the same answer they have for education, economic development, and pretty much everything else).
The Minnesota DFL has a problem.
Polling for mid-terms is abysmal – potentially catastrophic. Early signs are they could lose the House of Representatives and fall further behind in the Senate; it’s even hypothetically possible the hapless MNGOP could finally get a governor.
The economy shows every sign of starting to slow down (at best) – something the media will try to spin until after a new, GOP-controlled Congress and Legislature take over, but for now, things seem to be getting away from ’em.
But…
The DFL controls the state bureaucracy.
The report that was issued by the MN Department of Human Rights – which is like one of those non-profits we mentioned above, only part of the executive branch – earlier this week could have been issued at any time in the past 35 years. It should have been issued at any time in the past 35 years; you don’t have to be a black community activist to notice the MPD has issues. If the DFLers who created the Human Rights department, and who have always staffed it, had needed to issue it at any point in the past 35 years, they would have.
But they didn’t need to issue it then. It might be excessively cynical to say a city full of people angry about their police suited them, per se – but it wasn’t against their interest.
But now? As Democrats nationwide are being weighed down (justifiably!) by their performance on law and order issues – now the MNDoHR comes out with a report on the MPD?
Right around the time the DFL statewide needs to deflect the “conversation” about crime away to…anything but six decades of failed DFL rule?
- DFL-caused problem (problems, really – crime in Minneapolis is the DFL’s baby, and the DFL has controlled the MPD for three generations).
- DFL-controlled bureaucracy.
- Report that tries to shift blame for crime away from the DFL, which has controlled literally all the factors leading to the problem since Eisenhower was President.
Seeing a pattern, here?
April 29th, 2022 at 8:14 am
It is astonishing to me how progressives, usually from suburban areas, fail to understand or accept that the victims of urban crime are almost 100% minorities. It’s the minority people in the urban neighborhoods who are murdered, robbed, or sold drugs to — by their own neighbors.
Even more astonishing is that minority urban politicians (and now some prosecutors), typically see themselves as advocates for the criminals, rather than the law-abiding voters who are the victims of the criminals. Maybe that’s changing, as the urban politicians begin to accept that their constituents are entitled to peaceful, crime-free lives. Hope so.
April 29th, 2022 at 10:35 am
Even more astonishing is that minority urban politicians (and now some prosecutors), typically see themselves as advocates for the criminals, rather than the law-abiding voters who are the victims of the criminals.
That is because they do not serve minority, urban communities. They serve the white bourgeois.
April 29th, 2022 at 11:19 am
I was at Jukebox Saturday Night one evening back in the 80s when officer Mike Suaro put the smackdown on an obstreperous drunk. Folks kind of laughed about it – “Jeepers (or similar), it’s Suaro! Poor guy is getting a beating.” Seemed as if everyone knew what Suaro was all about, and that he was one of the MPD’s “thumpers”, and that this just was the way of things.
Personally, I made a big mental note to never get drunk and obstreperous in Minneapolis.
April 29th, 2022 at 11:34 am
Back in the 80s, at the old Minneapolis city building (that big hulking stone castle downtown), after booking you were escorted by the arresting officer(s) to the basement jail in an elevator.
Some people had a really rough ride in that elevator.
April 29th, 2022 at 12:07 pm
All those past wrongs were wrong but going forward, how do we make it right?
How do we stop spray-and-pray machine-pistol drive-by shootings? How do we stop carjackings? How do we stop flash-mob shoplifting sprees? How do we stop baggage claim rumbles, fast food restaurant brawls, nightclub killings?
“But the police are thugs!” Yeah, but until now they’ve been OUR thugs, protecting the law-abiding from the lawless, thumping the people who needed thumping because thugs refuse to follow the rules of civilized behavior and don’t understand any language other than ‘might makes right.’ Judging from internet videos, they still don’t.
Jevenal asked: “Who watches the watchers?” I ask: “Who thumps the thugs when our own thug-thumpers don’t do it?”
Still haven’t heard a satisfactory answer from anybody on the Left.
April 29th, 2022 at 12:29 pm
Still haven’t heard a satisfactory answer from anybody on the Left.
Of course you have, JD! Community outreach and professional conflict resolution officers with degrees in womyn’s studies! Libturds have all the answers. Just because they are not satisfactory to your liking, means that Ministry of Truth have not had a go at you yet. You’ll be satisfied in time, just like everyone else.
April 29th, 2022 at 1:18 pm
jpa (and JD), don’t forget that the government that luvs them minorities is also taking away their menthol ciggies. It’s for their best.
April 29th, 2022 at 1:23 pm
JD – How many thugs could a thug-thumper thump, if a thug-thumper could thump thugs?
April 29th, 2022 at 3:00 pm
The thing is that we can vote the miscreants out of elected office but it’s virtually impossible to touch the bureaucracies which fund DFL politicians. Term limits for elected officials only goes so far. We also need term limits on state agencies and government programs as well.
April 30th, 2022 at 12:48 am
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