Off Message
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Hundreds of shots fired. St. Paul experienced an increase in both violent crimes (up 25%) and property crimes (up 14.9%) last year, which Police Chief Axtell attributed to the “global pandemic, historic levels of rioting and very real economic pain.”
Not January 6th? Get on message, dude.
Joe Doakes
I’d say “I’m surprised nobody’s blamed ‘white supremacy8′”, but then Councilmember Jalali hasn’t spoken yet.
May 11th, 2021 at 9:26 am
Very good rebuttal of the pandemic causing crime thesis by Nicole Gelinas in the New York Post. Referenced on Powerline blog as well.
May 11th, 2021 at 1:40 pm
So did pandemic replace AGM? How come I did not get the memo?