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Minneapolis city committee meeting shows fear, hints at disaster
- Bostonian 6y agoThe advocates of "defunding" the police should consider the consequences. Even when funding is not drastically reduced, the defunding rhetoric demoralizes the police and encourages criminals. Quoting the article: 'But some residents think the council’s rhetoric was enough to embolden criminals throughout the city. “Through ongoing irresponsible rhetoric, City Council members, you have endangered us, our homes and our businesses. Brazen criminals now lurk in broad daylight knowing that the City Council, the city’s own leadership, through its anti-law enforcement and anti-safety rhetoric, is giving them opportunities to terrorize the community with more ease than at any time before,” an immigrant who has lived in Minneapolis for 16 years told the council last week.'
- iron0013 6y agoFirst, Alpha news is a conservative propaganda site. Second, the Minneapolis police department is still fully funded, because the council’s police reform efforts have been stymied by the unelected charter commission, who have prevented the citizenry from voting on an amendment to the city charter that would remove police funding guarantees and allow them to be held accountable. Because they can’t be held accountable, police have simply stopped doing their jobs, while still collecting their fat paychecks. As a citizen of Minneapolis, let me tell you that it doesn’t feel great to watch these welfare queens in blue sit in their cars taking naps and eating bagels instead of doing their jobs. They are leeches, and when the amendment does eventually make it to the ballot, we the voters are going to pull their gravy train tickets so fast it’ll make their heads spin.