Do not defund police/ add more police (Minneapolis, Brooklyn Park: real estate, townhouse)

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by Glenfield

No, that is incorrect. You are probably referring to complaints against Chauvin. Resolving complaints without disciplining the officer is not uncommon simply because many complaints are false. Most complaints are filed by criminals.

His record is being investigated, so we'll get to the bottom of the validity of those complaints. Stay tuned.

[wamer27]

I never paid attention to anything in Seattle, but here’s what happened when police didn’t enter a 6 block area. I thought Frey was bad, she puts him to shame.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn...ety/index.html

[GGG2020]

Originally Posted by snebarekim

I am not convinced about the bolded part.

No, they're definitely not learning from their mistake according to this: https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/white-...homeless-camp/ I can't even understand that mindset. It's like the Twilight Zone, or something from The Onion, except it's for real. They're getting robbed and they go "poor kids, I hope they don't get a boo-boo jimmying that car door open!" It's bizarre. So bizarre I think there's no fixing it. There's just too much disconnect between these people's views and reality. Aaaaand they vote. Oh joy.

[Tyryztoll]

Originally Posted by wamer27

I never paid attention to anything in Seattle, but here’s what happened when police didn’t enter a 6 block area. I thought Frey was bad, she puts him to shame.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn...ety/index.html

Yeah, Durkan is wack. What a shame, such a stunningly beautiful city. I wanted to move there bad 15-20 years ago......glad I never did. Feel bad for the longtime residents of Seattle and their metro.....because like we discovered here, this stuff affects not only those living in the cities themselves, but anyone who goes there routinely for business, medical, entertainment, etc.

[blisterpeanuts]

Originally Posted by Mason3000

This is it in a nutshell. Many Democrats in Mpls are well off financially, have nice homes, luxury cars, send kids to to private schools, play expensive club sports, and their kids will head off to expensive colleges. They worked hard, went to school, did the right things & prospered. Capitalism has been very good to them. They voted for Tim Walz, Jacob Frey, Keith Ellison, Ilhan Omar & a host of extremist clowns on the City Council. It all seemed so fun and hip. As they watched Frey tell the police to stand down & let Lake St burn, they started raising an eyebrow. When Frey told the police to surrender the police precinct, they did a double take to see if that could be real? Then they woke up one morning and their kids asked them why the air was full of smoke? Then they drove to the Holiday in their own neighborhoods to get gas & a doughnut, and it had been burned down. Then Antifa started talking about home owners being the oppressors & how the fight needed to be taken to the rich people, not just on Lake St. Then the Mpls City Council voted to abolish the police. That's when they realized, they'd screwed up. They like the police. They want MORE police in fact. You know what those people did? They bought guns. Oh yes, they now saw the value of the 2nd amendment. They watched Youtube videos of store owners fending off the mobs with assault rifles & suddenly their opinion on assault rifles changed. Now they're watching nationwide as mobs attack innocent motorists & home owners. They're watching statues fall, not of Confederates, but of Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, even Frederick Douglass. Then they watched the left turn the 4th of July & Mt Rushmore into symbols of White Supremacy & thought, "I'm getting sick of this crap!". You know what they're doing right now? They're politely smiling as BLM/Antifa tear down our country, but when Nov 3rd comes along & no one's looking over their shoulder, they're going to vote for law & order.

Sometimes telling people isn't enough. Sometimes you have to show them.

Some (many) liberals walk around with a "spank me, I've been bad" sign nailed to their Cro Magnon foreheads. They need to get beaten up, raped, even shot; it's a pathological guilt complex.

Let them. I'm tired of all this. Let the mobs swarm over the affluent liberal neighborhoods, let them burn down City Hall, the schools and museums. Let them turn once-beautiful Minneapolis-St. Paul into Mogadishu 2.0.

I'm stocking up on popcorn.

[skeddy]

safe neighborhoods will just make property values increase, less opportunity for poor people to buy homes.

[Wayfarerz]

I've been following the discussion in this thread regarding what "defund the police" actually means.

The SJW's started a movement that THEY called "defund the police". The meaning of "defund" is defined by Merriam-Webster as "to withdraw funding from" which seems to mean "abolish" because once civil servants stop being paid, they tend to stop coming to work.

And when someone questions the wisdom of abolishing the police in large cities, that someone is at fault because he should know that "defund the police" doesn't mean "defund", it means something else. If "defund the police" actually means something else such as "reform the police", aren't those that started the movement to blame for not calling the movement what it actually was?

I know our educational system has been dumbed down for 60 years, but all of this seems pretty straight forward.

[LS Jaun]

Originally Posted by Glenfield

Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender says you’re wrong.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...dent-seeks-po/

Interesting, that many on here seem to be able to read every individuals mind that is carrying a "defund the police" sign and make the proclamation that that individual really doesn't mean "defund the police"

[Minntoaz]

Originally Posted by skeddy

safe neighborhoods will just make property values increase, less opportunity for poor people to buy homes.

Yep we are already seeing this in the burbs. My zillow updates tell me a projected increase of 2% over the next year- say what? We are in dire economic times but you better believe people are sick of the nonsense in the inner cities.

[Glenfield]

Heather MacDonald will be doing an online presentation at noon on July 30 on crime, race, and policing. I think others in this forum will find her fact based approach to these issues to be informative.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archiv...d-policing.php