Saint Paul notched its 19th homicide over the weekend:
The city of St. Paul recorded its 19th homicide Friday night after officers conducting a welfare check in the city’s Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood found a man dead from a gunshot wound.
A statement released by SPPD said officers were dispatched to a senior living apartment building on the 700 block of East Seventh Street just before 7 p.m.
They arrived, made entry into the apartment and found the man, who is believed to be in his late 50s. Initially, it was unclear to the officers if the injury was self-inflicted or caused by someone else, but after members of the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office and our forensic services unit responded and gathered more information and evidence, it became clear that someone had shot the man.
Just for reference, Saint Paul had 38 homicides – the worst butcher’s bill in 25 years, and an alarming death toll in its own terms.
If we continue at our current pace, the city will have 43 in 2022.
Great job, Melvin.
Everyone knows why this is happening.
Criminals are arrested for committing serious crimes and are released by leftist prosecutors and judges to inflict more terror on their communities.
This example is by no means an outlier:
https://twitter.com/CrimeWatchMpls/status/1534030010377453571?s=20&t=G5Sjua_cXgrPxiy2wPHvGQ
That and GLOBAL WARMING!
I blame Trump.
Great link, MP. Thanks. Worth noting it’s not just the one guy, but a stream of some 25 others with a huge amount of info (threadreaderapp link is easier to read and you don’t have to go to Twitter).
Didn’t someone else here (JD?) post something about actually enforcing existing laws. Yes. Or as one of the tweets said.
Hint: We don’t have a gun violence problem. We have a culture of violence problem caused and enabled by decades of feelgoodery and bad policy by the regime
Here’s hoping that Chesa Boudin is the first DA to get bounced today in the liberal bastion of San Francisco, where even the woke are waking up. If they can do it in SF, then there’s a fleeting hope for LA and maybe even Minneapolis and St. Paul.
NW, let’s assume you’re correct about SF. For voters of the Twin Cities to get that message tho’, crime will have to get an awful lot worse. Not because TC voters are dumber (open to arguments about that tho’), but because as awful as crime has become in the TC, it is not as bad as SF.
Amazing that defund the police wasn’t more successful. You gotta be pretty dense to think that loosening penalties for theft and crime, along with taking officers off the street, was going to do anything other than spawn bad behavior.
“Criminals are arrested for committing serious crimes and are released by leftist prosecutors and judges to inflict more terror on their communities.”
The problem with the progressive prosecutors is that they are not prosecutors, but social engineers. And maybe the social engineering they seek over a generation would organically lower crime levels. But in the meantime, people in cities have a right to safely now. And so the progressive prosecutors will be swept away.
Prosecutors who refuse to prosecute, and police who fail to investigate, should be compelled to attend the funerals of those who die because of their failure to do their jobs.
It will be very interesting to see who gets the new top cop job.
My guess it will be an internal promotion. I couldn’t see anyone of quality wanting the job.
Prosecutors who refuse to prosecute, and police who fail to investigate, should be should be fired without pensions and forced to pay restitution to victims for failure to do their jobs. There, fixed it for you, you are welcome.
Prosecutors who refuse to prosecute, police who fail to investigate, and judges who refuse to demand bail, who reduce sentences or just simply refuse to incarcerate at all; should themselves be incarcerated, fired without pensions and forced to pay restitution to victims for failure to do their jobs. There, fixed it for you, you are welcome.
I see Putin’s hand in this!
BB offered: “Prosecutors who refuse to prosecute, and police who fail to investigate, should be compelled to attend the funerals of those who die because of their failure to do their jobs.”
The way I see it, this is divine retribution, or Karma for you crystal worshippers, for everyone that sat back for years and did nothing about prosecutors and cops who fabricate damning evidence, hide exculpatory evidence, and outright lie in reports and on the witness stand.
If only someone would have warned you, right Delenda?
When I watch cops get raked over the coals, I think of all the men who’ve gone to a gas chamber, or the electric chair for shit they not only didn’t do, but for shit the cops and prosecutor *knew* they didn’t do.
Cops* are getting their payback, and the only thing between prosecutors and their day is George Soros’ DA project and leftist degenerates that love the chaos.
*White cops. Black and brown cops still enjoy broad immunity.
rAT squeaked: “And maybe the social engineering they seek over a generation would organically lower crime levels.”
Of course they would. As soon as everyone with anything worth stealing left, or all their stuff has been taken, or they have been killed, crime would plummet. Q.E.D.
More deep thoughts from a 85 IQ nitwit. Keep going.
Blade;
I’m still waiting for our Senator of small things, Amy Klobitcher and the Frisco ho, Kamala Harris, to get raked over the coals for their illegal acts during prosecutions. But, I ain’t holding my breath.
If only — if only! — the law provided some remedy for sociopaths who threaten rob and murder people and wasn’t racist.
But there is no such remedy.
I really don’t have much sympathy for the suburbanites who voted for Freeman and his ilk. They are getting exactly what they wanted.
Meanwhile, Minneapolis just marked its 38th homicide of the year.
I can picture St. Paul Mayor Carter talking to his staff. “THEY get to break records, why can’t WE ever break any records? What have they got that we ain’t got? They got a train, we got a train. They got a stadium, we got a stadium. Dammit, this sucks. Fire all the cops, hire ex cons, do SOMETHING!”