November 27, 2020
Can we skip ahead to the part where we say, 'We told you so?'
By Steve Pomper
This past summer the people of Minneapolis simultaneously saw its government implode and riots explode.
All this violence and destruction was predictable -- to lucid people. It was also predictable that the “defund the police movement†would end in disaster for every city that tried it. The Minneapolis City Council, which also led on the absurd idea by endorsing legislation not to just defund but to abolish their police department and replace it with a pretend police agency. This, predictably, led to an increase in crime -- especially violent crime.
Not long after voting to defund the police, Minneapolis City Council members began hearing complaints from their constituents about rising crime in their districts. Cars racing, property damage, assaults, and home-invasion robberies… who would have guessed that would happen? As for the social workers and “violence interrupters†that were supposed to solve everything, a poor social worker was recently murdered while “on duty†in Seattle.
Now, the Minneapolis City Council wants to spend more than half a million dollars to hire police officers from surrounding agencies to augment their cops. The council intends for those officers to help reduce crime in the city. What about their own officers? Well, they’re headed toward other agencies or other careers. They know when they’re not welcome.
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