{"id":213718,"date":"2020-09-19T06:27:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T06:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=213718"},"modified":"2020-09-22T07:34:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T07:34:27","slug":"surge-in-violent-crime-after-minneapolis-council-slash-spending-on-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=213718","title":{"rendered":"Surge in Violent Crime After Minneapolis Council Slash Spending on Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8216;Residents say police are nowhere to be seen&#8217;: &#8216;Alarmed&#8217; Minneapolis City Council demands answers from its police chief over 15 percent rise in violent crime &#8211; two months after slashing his budget by $1m<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Councillors expressed alarm during a Council business meeting on Tuesday<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>At the meeting, they questioned Minneapolis&#8217;\u00a0police Chief Medaria Arradondo<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Data shows an increase of almost 15 per cent in violent crime in 2020 from 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Homicide, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, auto theft and arson are all up<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>This comes after the council voted to redirect $1 million from the MPD&#8217;s budget<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>GOP congressional candidate Lacy Johnson slammed council as &#8216;hypocrites&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Council voted two months ago to amend city charter to dismantle the police\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Chris Jewers and Ariel Zilber \u2013 Mail Online Sept 18, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_213328\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/defund-the-police-sign-protester-minnesota-2048x1365-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-213328\" class=\"wp-image-213328\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/defund-the-police-sign-protester-minnesota-2048x1365-1-768x511.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/defund-the-police-sign-protester-minnesota-2048x1365-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/defund-the-police-sign-protester-minnesota-2048x1365-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/defund-the-police-sign-protester-minnesota-2048x1365-1.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-213328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protester in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Just two months after voting to dismantle the police and slashing its budget, Minneapolis City Council members pressed the department&#8217;s chief over a surge in <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/crime\/index.html\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">crime<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, prompting a GOP candidate to slam the lawmakers as hypocrites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;Residents are asking, &#8220;Where are the police?&#8221;&#8216; Council Member Jamal Osman said on Tuesday, adding that calls to the Minneapolis Police Department from constituents have gone unanswered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;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.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;The hypocrisy and failure that we\u2019re seeing from this City Council is astounding and deeply troubling,&#8217; Lacy Johnson, a GOP candidate who is running against Democratic incumbent House Rep. Ilhan Omar, told <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/mn-congressional-candidate-city-council-police-crime-uptick\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Fox News<\/span><\/strong><\/a> on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Johnson said the council had been calling for the &#8216;dismantling or demilitarizing or the disarming of police&#8217; all summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;Now they\u2019re turning around and blaming these brave officers for a situation that they have created,&#8217; Johnson said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Robbery rose from 931 to 1,275 (37 percent) while incidents of aggravated assault increased from\u00a01,750 in 2019 to 2,100 this year (20 percent). Meanwhile, rape fell by 22 percent, and domestic aggravated assault fell by 8.4 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8743923\/Minneapolis-City-Council-alarmed-surge-violent-crime-two-months-cutting-police-budget.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis city council blame police for rising crime, although they voted to amend the city charter that would allow for the dismantling of the entire police department <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213718"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213744,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213718\/revisions\/213744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}