‘Residents say police are nowhere to be seen’: ‘Alarmed’ Minneapolis City Council demands answers from its police chief over 15 percent rise in violent crime – two months after slashing his budget by $1m
- Councillors expressed alarm during a Council business meeting on Tuesday
- At the meeting, they questioned Minneapolis’ police Chief Medaria Arradondo
- Data shows an increase of almost 15 per cent in violent crime in 2020 from 2019
- Homicide, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, auto theft and arson are all up
- This comes after the council voted to redirect $1 million from the MPD’s budget
- GOP congressional candidate Lacy Johnson slammed council as ‘hypocrites’
- Council voted two months ago to amend city charter to dismantle the police
Chris Jewers and Ariel Zilber – Mail Online Sept 18, 2020
A protester in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Click to enlarge
Just two months after voting to dismantle the police and slashing its budget, Minneapolis City Council members pressed the department’s chief over a surge in crime, prompting a GOP candidate to slam the lawmakers as hypocrites.
‘Residents are asking, “Where are the police?”‘ Council Member Jamal Osman said on Tuesday, adding that calls to the Minneapolis Police Department from constituents have gone unanswered.
‘That is the only public safety option they have at the moment. MPD. They rely on MPD. And they are saying they are nowhere to be seen.’
Osman and other council members questioned police Chief Medaria Arradondo on Tuesday about the increase in crime, including daylight car jackings, robberies, assaults, shootings and street racing.
But others noted that the council just recently slashed the police budget by $1.1million and also voted to amend the city charter that would allow for the dismantling of the entire police department.
‘The hypocrisy and failure that we’re seeing from this City Council is astounding and deeply troubling,’ Lacy Johnson, a GOP candidate who is running against Democratic incumbent House Rep. Ilhan Omar, told Fox News on Thursday.
Johnson said the council had been calling for the ‘dismantling or demilitarizing or the disarming of police’ all summer.
‘Now they’re turning around and blaming these brave officers for a situation that they have created,’ Johnson said.
Crime data from the Minneapolis Police Department shows homicide, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, auto theft, theft from motor vehicles and arson were all up in the city so far in 2020, when compared with 2019 up until September 15.
Violent crime, including domestic aggravated assault, was up almost 15 per cent in the first nine months of the year, while property crime was up almost eight per cent in the same time period.
Of all the crimes that have increased, homicide saw the largest spike of 87 per cent, rising from 30 in 2019 to 56 in 2020, while incidents of arson have increased by 82 per cent over the total at this point in 2019.
Robbery rose from 931 to 1,275 (37 percent) while incidents of aggravated assault increased from 1,750 in 2019 to 2,100 this year (20 percent). Meanwhile, rape fell by 22 percent, and domestic aggravated assault fell by 8.4 percent.
In terms of property crimes, burglary rose from 2,223 to 2,785 (25 percent), thefts from motor vehicles rose from 3,127 to 3,937 (26 percent), and auto theft rose from 1,982 to 2,766 (40 percent), while larceny fell by almost 10 percent.
How about another joke, Murray?
What do you get when you include & integrate millions of violent criminally insane bipedal apes into your white western civilization?
I’ll tell you what you get. You get what you f****ng deserve.
Look at the tattoos on the “thing” holding the sign. Americans, can you figure it out??
Joker….. 100% agree with your comment !
BTW WAW only ” Mensa Members” tattoo their bodies & have wardrobe malfunctions & missing knickers ?
If they meant it it would be good. Police chiefs have a great fear of vigilantes, who would prove very quickly that gov. had always been the friend of criminals. A crime surge is only temporary; soon the people notice that they need to organise. Richard Day mentioned in the 1960s that gov. would side with criminals.
WAW Tatoos in general are gross, but on females are abhorrent.
As an American, I request, ‘please don’t lay that on me.’ Lord knows there are pathetically inscribed females all around the globe, though, due to the insanely overwhelming ‘value’ of the MSM in the West, it’s worse.
R.C.
@ Joker & Mr Reynard
You both are just as ignorant as each other, you talk as if white culture is some form of pure race above all others, yet fail to explain how whites caused the crusades and millions of deaths associated, both world wars and the tens of millions of deaths, nearly every war since ww2 to present (and 100% of all wars since ww2 if you count their proxy armies they train from militias etc).
But that is exclusing the British Empire and the hundreds of millions who died over the whole empire period due to direct and indirect causation.
So once again tell me who is violent, criminal and insane bipedal ape again?
Also who are the majority of the Masons and Illuminati and the countless Satanist secret socities run by again? Oh yeah violent baby killing whites who love crime be it pedophilia or murder and are totally insane…
But once again enjoy being ignorant, you will be the ones crying tomorrow when they normalise pedophilia just as they did with LGBTQ+ and since your poor whites, you will be seen as inferior to the rich whites who will be allowed to prey on your children with no fear of any laws that would prohibit them.
Infact they will be protected from you under such laws should you wish to persecute a minority by seeking justice in blood from them for your child/ren!
Not to mention the coming quantum tattoo would mean they can easily cut off your money once it is all digital, force you into poverty and have your children taken into care (and into easy reach of the pedophiles), should any of them catch the fancy of a pedophile from online posts on social media, passing them in the street etc…