MINNEAPOLIS IS BACK, BAYBEEEEEEE!!!!
And if you say otherwise, you’re probably from Fridley and live in your mom’s basement!
Oh, yeah. Minneapolis is back.
Pay no attention to the mass of criminals behind the curtain:
I bet Andy Lugar lives in his mom’s basement in Fridley!
Don’t knock living in a basement, it worked for Joe Biden, didn’t it? Besides what better place to avoid a stray bullet?
HennCo Attorneys won’t lock ’em up, Ellison won’t lock ’em up (unless they are cops), so the feds have to step in.
Minneapolis went from being one of the best managed medium sized cities in the US to one of the worst — all thanks to covid.
As the finances of Minneapolis and Saint Paul continue to decline, look for greater bail outs from the state.
I’m glad that I live on the other side of the river.
Minneapolis went from being one of the best managed medium sized cities in the US to one of the worst — all thanks to covid.
Errrr… no… Thanks to feckless, murderous, immoral, machiavellian libturd politicians. Did covid give pretense for libturds to consolidate power and push authoritarianism down peasants’ throats, yes, but last time I checked “covid” did not and does not make policy.
More vibrancy!
“6-year-old riding bike caught in shootout in Minneapolis”
https://alphanews.org/6-year-old-riding-bike-caught-in-shootout-in-minneapolis/
Mary Moriarty, the next HennCo attorney, won her primary by promising NOT to put people in jail.
Doing business in Minneapolis has got to be a nightmare. That said, a cowboy bar in DT Minneapolis? Really? Only way I see that working is an assless chaps connection.
Dubnecay simply needs to get up to speed on the reality, which is that ordinary kulaks like him don’t need a car. He should be grateful. He should be glad to make deliveries on his bicycle when it’s 20 below.
Seriously, not assigning investigators or actually interviewing witnesses is a widespread issue. I remember a 2019 Star-Tribune investigation where they found that 25% of reports of sexual assault did not result in an investigator being assigned. The one mercy is that we’re not in Seattle, where the entire sexual assault investigation team was reassigned.
But you can still find someone to write speeding tickets and chase after minor league dopers. Grrr….
I think that you may be wrong about Luger.
I heard out going St. Cloud police chief Blair Anderson talking with Dan Barrieiro last week. The crime increase in Minneapolis was a topic of conversation and Dan asked Blair about Luger. Blair worked with Luger earlier in his career and has high praise for his no nonsense approach to crime, stating that he is exactly what they need.
I guess time will tell. We’ll see if the cesspool that is “Minndianapolis”, infects him.
Alpha news has been mentiined on Fox news, and is becoming a genuine news outlet, and the degenerates hate it.
Hope they’re prepared for the attacks being g planned.
Did you know that the city of Minneapolis has an “Office of Violence prevention”?
It oversees 7-8 million $ a year in grants to “community groups: https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/government/departments/health/office-violence-prevention/
There are a few things on the OVP web site that I find “problematic”:
What we do
The Office of Violence Prevention (OVP) uses a community-focused, public health approach to help ensure that everyone can be free from violence. We work to break the cycle of violence by addressing it at three points:
Preventing it before it begins
Intervening at the first sign of risk
Healing after it happens
So failure is part of the process.
. . .
Core beliefs in our work
Violence is not inevitable. The same as with other health conditions, we can prevent and treat violence, and we can heal from it.
Violence has roots in social, economic, political and cultural conditions. Some things that can impact violence are:
racism
limited economic opportunities
community disinvestment
community disconnectedness
poor housing conditions
harmful norms around gender and masculinity
classism
oppression
Yep, failure is baked into the cake.
Some of the links on their web site are broke. I don’t know who is in charge at Minneapolis Office of Violence Prevention, but I have questions.
I don’t know who is in charge at Minneapolis Office of Violence Prevention, but I have questions.
I’d love to peruse the ephemera the MOVP has collected over the past 2 years.
I know, it seems impossible, but the MOVP is worse than you think, Blaze.
I found the MOVP’s budget, here: https://bit.ly/3CEdSd4
The money is going to grants to “community groups,” which means a black hole. It’s not helpful to say that the MOVP gave a grant of $137,500 to Shiloh Temple for “trauma response” if we don’t know what Shiloh Temple did with the money. I really don’t have time to deal with this this AM (going on a late summer MC cruise to Ladysmith later with some friends) but a quick internet search tells me that the “trauma response” is for emotional, not physical trauma.
The budget doc talks a lot about “evidence based” solutions. It has a link to this white paper: https://cvg.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Cure-Violence-Evidence-Summary.pdf
The whitepaper says that research published by Dalhousie University shows that the “Cure Violence Globally” policies adopted by MOVP resulted in a 100% reduction of Homicides in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 2016.
But a quick internet search shows that Halifax had 16 homicides in 2016.
The list of cities worldwide that have supposedly reduced violent crime by adopting CVG policies is preposterous on its face — multiple standard deviations of reduced violent crime achieved in a year or less.
I would submit that this has not been the experience of Minneapolis since it adopted CVG policies in 2018.
It turns out that a high school classmate of mine, is very good friends with Ron De Santis. I have often pointed out to conservative friends that every GOP Governor, should bring in “the Bobs” to ferret out useless positions and wasteful spending. He mentioned this to De Santis, who laughed at first, but then paused and replied, “You know what? That’s not a bad idea”. He is one person that has the guts to do it, too.
BH, when Jack Welch took over at 3M in the early – mid 90’s, the first thing he did was close all the plants with union employees. The next thing he did was lay off all the engineers, and sell the 4 story Engineering building at 7th and Arcade St.
Many of the engineers started their own companies, which were immediately hired by 3M. They picked up right where they left off. Jack was a genius.
I was working for Adkins-Benham at the time, we’d been hired to document all the equipment in the union plants Jack had closed, so they could be re-commissioned in the new plants they were building.
When that was done, I was hired to work with a 3M group on perfecting an extruded adhesive coating process for their web lines. Worked in the ES&T building for 4 years; had my own desk, right next to the 3M employees I worked with, and an access card that got me everywhere in the building.
I lost that gig when some fool sued 3M, saying since he was given office space in a 3M building, and a 3M email account, he was a 3M employee and 3M owed him a bunch of money. He won; everyone else lost.
3M eventually brought back some their engineering in-house, but the new guys didn’t get a pension, and the health insurance was not anywhere as good as it had been. The engineering group was also pared down to about 100 guys…they ferreted out at least 200.
I’m working downtown Minneapolis, and looking to escape. Getting into my building early each morning, I’m on the look out because there are so few people. In the afternoon, there’s enough private security and one Minneapolis cop that I’m sure anything would at least be documented.