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| Cries For Help Grow Following Ongoing Crime In Minneapolis |
| 2020-09-20 |
| [MINNESOTA.CBSLOCAL] Concerns over an uptick in violence and a decrease in the number of coppers on the street to combat, has residents calling for action from city leaders. Business owners in the third precinct are looking for help to stop the robberies and break-ins that are impacting their livelihoods. Third precinct inspector Sean McGinty told them in an email he’s lost 30% of street officers since the end of May. "We’re just running the police we do have ragged at this point they need their rest we need some kind of help from somewhere," said Steve Taylor. Business owners in the fifth precinct are also asking for additional protection from the uptick in violence. Two weeks ago they learned eight officers protect the 20 neighborhoods that make up the precinct. Cries for help continue to come out from residents in the fourth precinct. "Cries for help" will likely not produce much. I know it sounds strange, but voting for someone besides democrats might be the answer. (Wasted keystrokes, but it seems to help my arthritis.) "Help us, come and see what’s going on and we’re really not getting any responses from the Mayor or city council we feel kind of alone right now," Liz Cruz said. "This is something we have to treat urgently before more people die," Taylor said. All the cries for help have one thing in common — all say they have not heard directly from city leaders about a plan to attack the uptick in violence. "People are empowered right now because they are thinking ’oh yea less police force we can go and have whatever kind of fun we want to have shooting up everybody, killing people, killing teenagers in the middle of the day,’" Cruz said. During Friday’s city council meeting not one mention of the violence or a plan to confront it. Most people we have talked to for the past four weeks say city leaders need to step up and help residents and business owners, both who feel helpless against the violence. We’ve reached out to city council president Lisa Bender and vice president Andrea Jenkins for comment, but haven’t heard back. Related: I'm laughing so hard at this point I'm standing up. I need butt reattachment surgery.Lisa Bender: 2020-09-17 Minneapolis City Council Panics Over Surge In Violence After Demonizing Police: 'Where Are The Police?' Lisa Bender: 2020-09-17 Minneapolis City Council demands to know 'Where are the police?' as violence plagues the city Lisa Bender: 2020-06-13 Minneapolis City Council Unanimously Votes to Replace Police with ‘Community-Led Public Safety System’ |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 fuck em |
| Posted by: Chris 2020-09-20 22:55 |
| #9 I wonder what they cried for in the voting booths over the last 20 years. |
| Posted by: gorb 2020-09-20 17:04 |
| #8 Toughlove only works when you let them experience the actual consequences of their actions without rescue or lectures. It’s called learning... |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2020-09-20 16:20 |
| #7 Obama said it had something to do with the profit to earnings ratio |
| Posted by: Tarzan and Tenille6589 2020-09-20 09:58 |
| #6 I'm going to guess the (black) BLM marchers pronounce it "Eccity!" and the (white) BLM marchers find a way to make the pronunciation of the letter q into a polysyllabic event that puts Tiger Woods lining up a putt to shame. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-09-20 09:00 |
| #5 Equity! I'd like Raj to weigh in. Equity! has become the rallying cry of the progressives lately, but it's really not the same thing as equality. Let's hear from an expert... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-09-20 08:18 |
| #4 Well, that's one way to solve the embarrassment of a Donk city and state with a ghetto problem, by making the whole city a ghetto. Equity! |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-09-20 08:14 |
| #3 "Vote them out" isn't so easy in these blue enclaves, it makes you realize we are lucky that at the national level it's even a competitive thing. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-09-20 05:20 |
| #2 Well they voted Democrats... |
| Posted by: Thorong Grundy1520 2020-09-20 05:07 |
| #1 There's an urge to let them stew in their own juices for awhile longer. However, there are some honest law-abiding citizens in this area. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-09-20 00:49 |