Allow liberalism and leftist policies to be carried out to their logical conclusion and this is what happens. After Minneapolis, Minnesota decided to adopt a ‘Defund The Police’ posture, violent & property crime skyrocketed. Now the same city council that voted to disband the police, are voting to spend more money hiring 200 police officers….
(UK Daily Mail) Minneapolis is planning to spend $6.4million to hire dozens of police officers, at a time when some City Council members and activist groups have been advocating to replace the police department following the death of George Floyd.
The City Council voted unanimously Friday to approve the additional funding that police requested. According to the Minneapolis Police Department, there are only 638 officers available to work, which is roughly 200 fewer than usual.
[…] The city was plagued by soaring violent crime last year – with homicide, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, theft and arson all up on last year’s figures.
By the end of the year, police had recorded 532 gunshot victims, more than double the same period a year ago.
Carjackings spiked to 375 by December, up 331 per cent from the same period last year. And violent crimes topped 5,100, compared with just over 4,000 for the same period in 2019. (read more)
And btw – Lisa Bender, the loudmouthed moron who was the head of the Minneapolis City Council, has announced that she won’t run for re-election this year. (Guess she’s been offered a job in the Obama/Harris administration.)
“…City Council President Lisa Bender announced she would not seek re-election in 2021, according to an article in the Star Tribune. Bender was among the first City Council members to take the stage at Powderhorn Park and declared their promise to abolish the Minneapolis Police Department after George Floyd’s death. The result has been one of the most violent years on record in the city.”
Gov’t promotes ineptitude.
And is willing and able to pay above the going rate.
And remember, leftist theory proclaims that in this advanced age, people can’t possibly make decisions for themselves, so they need trained experts to run their lives. These experts decided that we don’t need police, only community organizing groups to agitate for social justice. You can be sure that those groups will be paid in perpetuity. New taxes will be needed to replace the cops they dumped.
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Kakistocracy is the operative description here.
And here is a link for your convenience.
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/kakistocracy
I like learning new words. And this is a doozy. Thank you for sharing this.
Dwayne, me too. I can even use it in a sentence. The United States is now a Kakistocracy. Who Knew?
And those willing to become cops today are not going to be the cream of the crop…
I don’t agree with you.
I believe my son will make a VERY good cop when he leaves the Navy.
He should be a very good cop. He probably should just find another city other than Portland, Seattle or Minneapolis
I live in Portland and know someone who is a cop here. Yes, not a great job these days,
Actually Seattle has one of the most highly trained and highly educated police forces in the country, as well as more oversight than almost anyone else. There are MANY excellent officers and they are doing all they can to claw the city back from the edge of the abyss! We owe them all a debt of gratitude for not simply packing up and walking away, IMHO!! IF enough of the citizens wake up and dump the idiots on the City Council (Kshama Sawant is currently facing a recall vote), and IF a sane person decides to throw their hat into the ring for the Mayor’s race this fall there may still be a chance to clean it up before it goes full Detroit!!
Dobbsfan – if your son feeling a calling to this line of work, tell him to go for it!!
Sorry Viking Mom I spent all of last summer feeling bad for the people who live in those cities. I have no doubt what you say about the Seattle PD is true. But the fact remains that the citizens who voted these Marxists into power to divide and manipulate the masses are no longer on my sympathy list. I know there are good people in there who are tied to the land because of work and family. Take a loss, start over, they should get the hell out. This type of violence has only escalated since O came on to the scene I wish I could tell you that last year was it’s zenith but that would be a foolish statement.
Good conservative people cut their losses and come to a red state/city; never forgetting why they left. Same goes for good honest and tough cops. When a distraction is needed it will be good citizens and/or good cops in the crosshairs. Throw in a Communist DA and you are in a no win situation if should fight back. And if things really go to hell you are in a full out zombie apocalypse.
Full Detroit? We do not have those issues here, not like in Seattle, Portland, Chicago or Minneapolis. Sure, we have crime, but nothing like the above.
I’m sorry but the actions of the officers in that city over the past year don’t align with your analysis. A police force that sits back and allows a segment of society to openly defy the laws on the books (attacking fed buildings, throwing rocks at cops, attacking innocent people, etc.) while overly enforcing mayor and gubernatorial creeds, not laws, that prevent the citizens from opening up their businesses or walking down the street without a mask is not a police force that fits your commentary. And, sadly, the police in Seattle have shown to be nothing but cowards and tyrannical assistants over the last 12 months.
Actions speak louder than words.
I am NOT sorry to say that you are absolutely 100% incorrect in your analysis and clearly do not have any idea what is happening in Seattle – the police HAVE continued to do their jobs, while having ZERO support from their own City Council, their Mayor, and, most importantly, from the City/County Prosecutors and local judges who simply refuse to prosecute people for the crimes that they continue to commit. The police are not sitting back at all – they ARE making the arrests and then the perps are simply being released, over and over and over again! The local businesses and MOST citizens and community groups DO support and appreciate SPD and they are just as frustrated at the refusal of the Prosecutors and judges to hold criminals accountable, but the local media, with a very few exceptions, is NOT reporting that part of the story!
Have you seen the documentary “Seattle is Dying”?
Eric Johnson is one of the only reporters who is covering the real events and the true cause of the wholesale destruction of a once beautiful city.Please watch this, as well as his follow up, “The Fight for the Soul of Seattle” to get the REAL story!
Please don’t fall into the MSM trap of automatically blaming the police – that’s exactly what they want you to do and you need to ask yourself WHY!!
vikingmom, that was an amazing documentary. I watched the whole thing, and I’m horrified. I had no idea it was so bad. I have never been to the city, but have flown in and out of SeaTac many times, and wanted to go back and visit someday. This is not a Chamber of Commerce documentary.
No, you can’t blame the police. It is out of their hands. I’m just surprised more don’t resign like the guy that cashed out and went on to his horse farm.
I certainly don’t know the solution, but a good start might be to vote out the city council because they are doing nothing and it is only going to get worse. Legalizing drugs and allowing these people to live like animals in filth and degradation is the opposite of compassion
The Rhode Island approach seems great, bust them for crimes and treat them. A 93% compliance rate to continuing treatment after release is astounding.
I can only hope someone in the government sees the benefit of trying it before Seattle truly dies.
“Legalizing drugs and allowing these people to live like animals in filth and degradation is the opposite of compassion.”
YES!!!! And the problem is that Leftists are convinced that the police are the problem and that if only mentally ill, chemically addicted people were left alone (and given inordinate amounts of taxpayer funds) then they would somehow figure it out! That, of course, flies in the face of reality throughout history but it sure is easier to blame the cops than to admit that all of their ideas have only made things worse!
There are glimmers of hope in that people are finally pushing back against the crazies on the City Council (hopefully there will be a recall of at least one of them this summer) and that may bring some much needed balance to the city. I was born and raised here and it is a beautiful area and WAS a world class tourist destination. The police are absolutely NOT the problem and we just need more people in the media to start pushing back on that totally false narrative!
Eric Johnson’s follow up to Seattle is dying was released late last year and it was heartbreaking, but I would highly recommend people watch it, just to see the reality of what Leftist policies ALWAYS cause!
Just imagine the judging criteria these lunatics will be using to hire officers! While your son would no doubt be a fine, disciplined officer, these qualities will not be on that list of qualities necessary.
They WILL NOT hire police with above average IQs in most western countries now.
George, if you watched the documentary, it’s amazing, you would see what lunatics running a city are like, and the damage they are doing.
I don’t doubt that but think about the kind of city where he would be serving; one that has already proven that they don’t stand behind police.
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Ok, that sounds god dobbsfan. FWIW we have a very nice opportunity for some of the cream to come to Charlottesville, VA to apply at Albemarle County PD (not that I work there, I don’t). They are down about 18 officers (give or take) right now. Only problem is that Albemarle County housing prices are kinda steep.
I respectfully disagree with you. My son graduated from the Norfolk VA police academy last year. It is very difficult and there are some who just do not make the grade and do not last. I am very proud of him. He was the class chaplain the top marksman In his class. He now works in the most diverse and difficult precinct. Bad recruits will be weeded out.
The VAST majority of cops are good cops.Unfortunately, when they are forced to deal with a black thug who is violently resisting arrest, their supervisors and their mayors will throw them under the bus if they end up harming or killing the thug.
The police are generally not the problem. The public unions and their control by leftist politicians are the issue.
Ever been in a holding cell ?
Innocent till proven guilty bullshit.
they are weeded out by race now
at least in N.J.
This is true and I am WHITE.
I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would be a cop these days. Especially in blue cities or blue governors. Yea the left is now trying to appear sane I get it. Some of the shit they pulled last year was an act in a sorts. But here’s the thing, they honestly thought that act would help their cause and that only proves how batshit crazy they really are. As soon as they need a distraction you can bet your ass the cops will be scapegoated. It is all in accordance to what kind of circus clown world media wants to turn it into now isn’t it.
If you are a good, fair, tough cat and you want to be a cop then for Gods sake stay away from the blue hives. Let them have the crime they deserve in those places. I understand most conflicts go unnoticed but only until our betters need entertainment. Just my 2 cents.
I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would be a cop these days
There seems to be a fair share of ‘no show overtime’ available to Massachusetts State Police. Not to mention that traffic control at local construction sites is overseen by the local police at handsome hourly rates. Easy money is a good motivator.
Thats been going on for 30 yrs where live.
Your screen name, “idontknow” is appropriate
This is the likely outcome of the false Defund narrative. Crime skyrockets and the police are funded again as the political leaders look like amateurs. Minne now, NYC next?
Same thing is happening in LA with Soros-funded DA Gascon.
Wonder if reporting of rape and domestic violence is what went down, rather than the actual crimes themselves…
Chicago left rape kits UNPROCESSED for MULTIPLE DECADES.
The entire state of IL did not even REPORT rape to the federal unified crime stats.
ALL done to make it appear much safer than reality reveals…
So your musing re: rape and domestic violence is PERFECTLY APPROPRIATE.
They fudge the books always.
Many potential contributing factors. Did a search on ‘untested rape kits Minnesota’ — and you can do this for just about any state in large municipality and also get results in the thousands — and here is a 2019 story:
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/investigations/kare-11-investigates-more-untested-rape-kits-discovered-in-mn/89-00272441-b7af-4043-9bfa-130dcf20dd03
“Records obtained by KARE 11 reveal Minnesota has additional rape kits – potentially several thousand of them – that were never fully tested, leaving crucial DNA information out of a nationwide database meant to catch serial predators. That’s on top of the 3,482 untested kits state officials disclosed in 2015. Minnesota’s top law enforcement agency declined KARE 11’s request for an on-camera interview about the issue.
“In an email last week, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension spokesperson Jill Oliveira acknowledged the agency is currently working to determine whether approximately 2,700 additional sexual assault kits need DNA testing. They were not included in the state’s 2015 count. Whatever the final number, Minnesota has no immediate plans to test them, according to interviews and records obtained by KARE 11. “We plan to test these at some point, but we’re not certain when we’ll have the resources to do those,” said Catherine Knutson, the BCA’s deputy supervisor of forensic science services.”
So what might we glean from this — and the repeated pattern apparently throughout the country in many places?
— A couple of stories are done on this every so often, and basically nothing happens
— The offered reasons for nothing being done are “resources“, which strains credulity. How hard is it to process this clinical evidence? With all of the money and programs and resources in the Minneapolis public sector, are we really supposed to believe that from 2015-2019, these kids couldn’t have been processed?
— Also, if the object were to process these kids, then what’s with the refusal by “Minnesota’s top law enforcement agency” for an on camera interview? What’s with the lack of immediate plans to test, and the overall lack of urgency?
— And could that lack of urgency be a byproduct of PC partisan priorities? Here’s another example from just last week of the evidently incarceration-averse, criminal justice reform-promoting priorities in Minnesota, including comments by the state attorney general Keith Ellison:
https://www.echopress.com/news/government-and-politics/6901929-Minnesota-House-bill-would-allow-prosecutors-to-review-past-sentences-for-long-serving-inmates
“Overall, Ellison said the bill is “the right thing to do.” “After three, four decades of harsher and harsher responses, it might well be time for us as administers of justice to say, … ‘Yes, it’s about accountability, but it’s also about mercy,’” he concluded.””
— If their priority is letting people out of prison and keeping people out of prison, are they going to be eager to test kits — with DNA-enhanced conviction likelihood and bad optics of leading violent crimes and sexual crimes go unpunished or lightly punished — when it is in their power given scant attention from the public and (often crony) media not to do so? PC priorities for partisan purposes not only kill, but evidently can give rapists get-out-of-jail free card (leading to repeat offenders), while the crony politicians get paid either way.
Going back to the question of violent crime and rape reporting reluctance among certain communities, this appears to touch on the ethnic aspect and the cultural background aspect as it relates to some enclaves in Minneapolis (as well as both as it relates to Ellison):
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/german_muslim_crime_denial_looks_a_lot_like_american_black_crime_denial.html
“Wishing away racial and religious violence is an old American tradition,” said Flaherty, who has documented black mob violence and media denial in several books. “And the Europeans are picking up that tradition nicely, with the same kind of effect: Denial only encourages more of the violence that these reporters and public officials try to ignore.”
“Melissa Harris-Perry connected the two kinds of denial very nicely on her weekend chat fest on MSNBC. She was talking with author Mona Eltahaway, who had written about being raped and beaten during the Arab Spring.
“Harris-Perry and a Harvard professor also on the show in 2013 wondered if the author should have just kept her mouth shut because her story made Moslems look bad.
“Which is also why black people in America do not report violent crime, especially rape, Harris-Perry said.
““I start with a little bit of trepidation in this conversation,” the host said, “in part because I know some of the critiques of this. The very idea that Western press, those that are not from these nations, who are not Muslim ourselves, who are not part of these traditions can look at your article and say ‘ahhh, look at how horrible those men, or those societies, or that religion is.’
“”And that is part of the reason why, for example, we have an under-reporting of rape and domestic violence in African American communities,” Harris-Perry continued. “Because we know the violence enacted on black men by police, so we often don’t call. Right?”
“A recent story at mic.com reported that 60 percent of black women are raped before the age of 18 — with 95 percent not reported.
“The show continued as the MSNBC host brought in Harvard professor Leila Ahmed, who questioned whether Eltahawy should have written the article at all. Not because it was false, but because it was true and made Moslems look bad.
“”You began, Melissa, by noting that some things in the African-American community are not publicized precisely because of the racism,” said Ahmed as Harris-Perry nodded in agreement on a split screen.
“”Mona, I appreciate what you do,” continued Ahmed. “But if possible [you should not] give fuel, fodder to people who simply hate Arabs and Muslims in this climate of our day.””
Just checked for Massachusetts. Sure enough, a local television station reported about two weeks ago there are up to 8,000 untested rape kits dating as far back as into the 80s.
It seems that MA legislation a few years ago aimed to address the backlog by requiring the police departments to submit evidence to crime labs for testing. MA was proud there were only a few hundred outstanding rape kits at the various police departments. However, the police departments were routinely submitting the rape kits that were then sitting at the crime labs; hence the 8,000 number of untested kits.
Nice head fake Massachusetts and Charlie Baker.
The Wire (good tv show, should be watched by all who seek to understand “the system”) talks about this. Crimes getting “downgraded” and classified as a lesser offense so you have fewer rapes, assaults, etc. They train the cops how to do this to protect the bosses. Just about the only stat they can’t hide is the murders. At least until COVID became the accomplice in every killing.
“Y’honor it wasn’t me killed Poo-Poo. It was Covid. He ain’t wear his mask so he got got. You gots to respeck the pandemic.”
The objectives of 2020 were met. Cause as much disruption and damage as possible to help establish control and remove President Trump. Now, the Puppet Masters require status quo and not upsetting the lemmings. People like the Governors of NY, CA, WI, MI, PA, ILL, etc. as well as this loud mouthed City Council members are now liabilities. There continued presence upsets the lemmings and draws too much attention.
They will now be sacrificed to prove how benevolent the Puppet Masters and demo-commies can be.
IOW, Cancel Culture always eats its own.
Former KGB Agent Yuri Bezmenov Explains Our Four Stages – “The New Normal”… – The Last Refuge 2013!
Ex-KGB Explains “The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion” … It’s All Happening Now (video) | SGT Report
“The main emphasis of the KGB is NOT in the area of intelligence at all….only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.”
Whatever
Want to bet they will need to raise taxes to pay for the additional cops?
AntifaThe DNC is now $6.4 million richer.Minneapolis resident here. 2021 property taxes are down a little from 2020. They’re down to “atrocious”. My theory is that they are trying to dissuade people from escaping and wouldn’t dare raising taxes after the performance of the Boy Mayor and the City Council. BTW 2 of the 13 council people are trans. A trans-woman and a trans-man. Of course they are.
What fools vote for these people? Not so smart to put confused leftists who know nothing about how to run anything in charge of a city. There is zero common sense. That being said – I live in Portland and our choices of candidates this last election were either horrible or insane. Thank God horrible won. LOL
Keep in mind, with the “defund cop” movement in 2020, that most Policemen Unions are now less likely to support the Democrat Party. Many Police Unions declared their support for Trump in the 2020 election. We will have to see how this plays out. It could be that the Democrats realize this, and that is partly why they are now trying to spend money for additional Police in Minneapolis. They are hoping to get Police Unions back in the Democrat camp.
https://ithacavoice.com/2021/03/ithaca-police-union-hits-back-urges-rejection-of-public-safety-reform-package/
Ithaca NY mayor, Svante
Myricke announced his plan to reform Ithaca police to GQ, before presenting it to the Ithaca Police, the Ithaca City Council, or the Ithaca Police Benevolent Association.
Ithaca police have been without a contract since 2011.
Apparently, other local unions are standing in solidarity with the Ithaca police.
Rumor has it that one local union circulated an email to membership planning a rally last week, later canceling the rally for fear of potential civil unrest.
https://ithacavoice.com/2021/02/myrick-apologizes-council-shows-tepid-response-in-first-look-at-public-safety-reform-package/
Mayor Myricke apologized for the GQ article.
A link to the reform report is in the article.
Also in Ithaca, Saturday night:
https://www.14850.com/030118668-west-state-robbery/
…”
Victim slashed in neck in west end robbery, say Ithaca Police
March 1, 2021 by Rachel Cera in 14850 Today
A group that pulled over on West State Street to answer a phone call was robbed by “four to five persons” who “approached the car and demanded money” on Saturday night, according to the Ithaca Police Department. During the incident, a male suspect “used an edged weapon and sliced the neck of the male driver,” police say.”…
I suspect that ship has sailed,…once off the reservation, dey ain’t going back!
Its when your OWN “ox is gored” that you make such a fundamental change.
In the case of LE, it isn’t liberty, its their lives on the line, the ‘ultimate ox’.
I just find it hard to fathom anyone in LE could support the insane policy prescriptions the Dem party is now advocating,…and there is no indication the Dems are contemplating backtracking at all, and if they tried I doubt anyone would believe them.
They have ‘jumped the shark’, and there is no going back.
IMHO
There should never ever be unions for public servants full freakin stop
Minneapolis won’t need to raise any extra money. Pelosi & Schumer & Joe Bite-me will shovel enough taxpayer dollars their way to cover everything they need to keep the police and keep their criminal cronies happy.
And dont forget the new house renovations.
Who ever said crime doesn’t pay !
This, along with the city hiring people to dispel rumors about the upcoming Floyd trial, and multiple high fences around the courthouse where the trial of the cop will take place, gives one the impression that imam Ellison doesn’t have a case.
Minneapolis burning.
Keith Ellison’s son (city councilman) doesn’t understand the big deal. The other one (“Philippe”) is one of our trans councilpeople.
From what I understand, they never had a case. The restraint procedure is in their police policies to begin with! Second of all, a real autopsy shows he did not die of strangulation. And the video shows he was complaining about not being able to breathe when he was standing up and no one touching him. He swallowed a bunch of drugs before the cops arrived to his car.
Show me just one major liberal run city that isn’t a complete hot mess.
I live an hour outside of Philly and Baltimore. My wife and I used to love to take a day trip into the city just to walk around, see the sights, do a little shopping, go to a nice restaurant and just enjoy the day. No more. Haven’t been to either one of those two carpholes since the 2015 Baltimore riots. Ain’t no big. Saved ourselves about $400 per trip.
AND, they are going to spend $1 MILLION to influence public opinion on the George Floyd trial through the use of “influencers” at at least $2k per pop.
This kind of spending should be OUTLAWED.
May I ask where you found this info?
It was on the national MSM evening news yesterday.
Thank you. I don’t watch that much anymore.
Minneapolis Spends $1.2 Million To Hire Black, Somali Influencers To Spread Propaganda About George Floyd Death Trial
https://yournews.com/2021/03/01/2043010/minneapolis-spends-1-2-million-to-hire-black-somali-influencers-to/
Somali influencers to influence whom? Other Somalis? They aren’t American heritage black people.
The article suggests that the Somali influencers are wanted to forestall civil unrest and property destruction. Apparently large swaths of the Minneapolis Somali community do not speak English.
OAN this AM.
I’m surprised anyone would even want the job after the way they’ve been trashed – which is on top of the hell they usually go through in their daily jobs.
Zero common sense!
What is more sinister, is as you winnow out the veteran police, and those who leave because they have had beyond enough, you open the LEO ranks to be filled with the brownshirts like BLM and Antifa members, now in police uniform!
Now with more “politically correct” selective law enforcement!
That’s always been the plan, hasn’t it….
This is quite astute. Is there any hope of a professional police force or will this be a collection of diversity hires that further damages an already compromised force.
Advertise openings for “university graduates with degrees in gender studies.” Then when they show up, hire them and give them a generic blue uniform and tell them to walk the streets and count genders. Their mere presence might stop one or two crimes and more than a few hundred grads can be hired for what it would cost to pay 200 cops. Gender Studies grads have high student loans to repay and few prospects for jobs.
Or hire GWU social studies grads on at the FBI where they can kneel before BLM thugs.
Folks seem to miss a key point. The actions to speak out against the police and defund is so that the experienced police resign and they can replace with newer more brain washable recruits that follow orders like ‘arrest someone not wearing a mask’.
The request for $ is to hire MORE that will arrest you for orders and not laws.
It goes hand in hand with mayors requesting sheriffs no longer be elected. So that the sheriff is a hand picked muscle for a mayor with sinister ‘orders’ to enforce
I was thinking the same thing CopperTop.
The police department has been hollowed out and all that is left is some hanging on for their pension and a few others.
Possibly the officers who had some moral fiber and the ability to leave, left.
Now the city council will fill the open positions with officers of the “caliber” they are looking for.
Recruits that will do what they are told to do with out balking.
Hand picked recruits who will not question ANYTHING.
You get it Chloe.
So the Minneapolis City Council finally figured out their mistakes and are taking action – after much loss of blood and treasure. Other people’s blood and treasure. Governors Cuomo and Newsom on the other hand…
These people need to be prosecuted for crimes against humanity – stupidity isn’t an excuse!
I remember at the height of the mostly peaceful protests, when the Minn. PD announced, in effect, “you’re on your own”, and advised the sheep to not resist the democrap gangs…give them what they want.
My first thought was, “Suppose they want my wife. Or my daughter.”
I thought you meant you’d defend your daughter but surrender your wife. Like Henny Youngman: “Take my wife … please”.
Leftists are not only evil, they are utterly stupid. Evil and stupid is a deadly combination.
The Minneapolis City Council ruined people & families lives. These are the types that must be thrown out by MAGA folks.
This is no accident. They forced many to retire and now will fill the ranks with those hand picked to enforce their agenda. It will just get worse as they promote their chosen up through the ranks.
Its similar to how conservatives are being purged from the military to create a leftist gestapo. They putting in place local level enforcers now.
Exactly Ran Dom.
Mid level LEO employment flush.
I have said before, cities will go first. This includes gentrified areas infested with SJWs in their 600sf $2k/month Apts and inner burbs infested with many idiots in their $500k cheap ass homes on 1/8 acre. They will get it first and will be richly deserved. I have 12 acres way in the country in a population declining county. More acres in cultivation than people.
I hate this state. I hate everything about it. The weather, the politicians, the people that live here that vote for the politicians. I have nothing but hate in my heart for Minnesota. Tim Walz and his voters can go **** a ********.
I feel the same about CA- newsom is a blithering sjw idiot
So let me hazard a guess where that 6.4 million comes from: Your pocket and mine!
Probably from that omnibus “COVID” bill bailing everyone out except the American people!
It will probably be the case that the Covid bailouts will be a permanent addition to the Federal spending, in lieu of an actual budget.
Speaking of budgets, when was the last time Congress actually voted and approved one as prescribed in the Constitution? 2009? Seems the wheels might just end up falling off at this rate.
The bailout can only postpone the ugly inevitable. If the politics don’t change then the problem can’t be solved – actually, delay will make things worse.
Perhaps it is time to figure out a way to work less and pay less taxes.
Rush Limbaugh brought this idea up decades ago.
To come to the point where citizens would work just enough to earn money to live but not enough to pay very much in taxes.
Maybe we have reached that point.
Untold 10’s and 10’s and 10’s of thousands have already figured out how to do that, making do with tangible hand-outs (food, rent, healthcare, education, obama phones, etc.) from the taxpayer’s worth up $50K or so or more if maximized to the fullest.
Who the freak would want to work when a comfy albeit ‘welfare’ lifestyle ain’t too shabby?!
Big goverment = total control.
Read up on “MMT” – pretty sure they don’t even need ‘taxpayers’ nowadays – they just print it out of thin air….
If I were a cop, or wannabe cop, there would be no way in hell I would have anything to do with those idiots!
As a lifelong resident of Minneapolis I have never seen such feckless leadership and out right neglet as in the last couple years. Policies that are stupid and shortsighted have been the norm along with a rapid increase in crime. On the state level about the same, Many villages who are missing their idiot can more than likely find him,her here living the dream!
Yes, and homeless can camp in the parks….supported with porta-potties and potable water….and the Minneapolis Park Board will women to go topless in all parks in 2021.
So there’s that.
Skank boobs,man boobs,fat boobs,ugly boobs,drugged up boobs,skinny boobs,droopy boobs,kiddy boobs,tranny boobs,fake boobs or no boobs, at this point
what difference does it make !
What is the old expression, a liberal is someone who hasn’t been mugged yet?
I heard this weekend over dinner from a relative who lives outside the city that people are leaving in droves and there aren’t enough houses in the suburbs.
More evidence that everything progressives touch quickly turns to shit.
Probably the biggest hit is to those owning condos in downtown Minneapolis. Construction everywhere. The allure of living down there was low crime, close to day jobs, and fabulous restaurants throughout the area. The city has caused crime to rocket upward, and the state has caused most of the good restaurants/night life to shutter their businesses. Lots of condos for sale…..the great Minneapolis condo crash will begin in 2021 due to bad policy….all because orange-man-bad.
I know someone who left Minneapolis last week for Michigan (moved due to job offer). He couldn’t find a trailer in-town or frankly anywhere in the twin cities so had to go to Rochester, MN to rent one. Was told by many that there were no trailers due to all the people moving out of the state. Media is pushing that the city will be back to normal in 2022. From what I see, I don’t know if it will ever get back to any semblance of normal.
I used to go downtown Minneapolis all of the time for business or to hit a bar or ball game. I have only been down there a couple of times on weekdays and it is like a scene out of the Andromeda Strain….a once vibrant downtown with people walking everywhere…has no one walking anywhere. Beyond eerie. I don’t see how it recovers. With many companies realizing they can do remote working, the commercial real estate market down there is going to collapse and never come back….all of this because…orange, man, bad.
Any decent would-be police officer should stay away from these places. No mater how good and descent they are they will be branded, tarred, feathered and thrown under the bus at the first interaction with an oharris thug by the very people whose laws they are enforcing.
The MN city council is not looking for police officers. They are seeking cannon fodder for the summer of 2022 and 2024.
Or politically controlled agents that avoid active crime scenes themselves and only arrest PC crimes in their NWO hellhole.
This is exactly right. Every 2-4 yrs the dems cause sheer kaos around election time. Occupy wall street etc. BLM, Antifa etc. The news media plays along like they are shocked also. I wonder what they have in store for us next because they have systematically been able to succeed. IMO, we need to start harassing the media and Hollywood. Without their vehicle, DC could not get away with it all. Ladies do you still think Brad Pitt is all that after his tirades on President Trump? He sickens me. His ex wife also. Do not forget who helped this evil permeate.
His ex wife that thing that had a Mastectomy on the 33 thousand to 1 chance that she MIGHT of developed breast cancer at some stage in its LIFETIME, promoted by the hollypuckedup crowd sponsered by the kings and queens of pizza themselves, you know the one that then went on to promote how TRENDY it is for teenage girls with the WITCH DOCTOR gene, with the result that thousands of young girls got their tits cut off for nothing other than being programed to worship fake idols.
The ex wife has a place waiting in HELLS SEWERS.
Of course!! The guise of covid relief bill…and state bailouts. Probably use the hiring as an added bonus proganda
Rough times ahead for Minneapolis. Remember affirmative action? Back in the 90’s, New Orleans was going to make sure that their police force ‘represented the city.’ That of course meant hire blacks. Black? You’re hired! Standards? We don’t need no stinkin’ standards! And they hired Antoinette Frank. That didn’t work out so well for some Vietnamese restaurant owners.
Minneapolis will go through the same knee jerk process and my money is on the same result. Why? 1) They’re Democrats who don’t know what the hell they’re doing and 2) Activists who pushed Defund will make sure the new hires ‘represent the city.’ (I’d leave now?)
I wonder if the Minneapolis sales pitch for police recruitment included “Come for the abuse, stay and be prosecuted.”
Death by a thousand paper cuts. I won’t speak for Minneapolis.
The golden era of U.S. policing ended about 2008 or so. Mark Twain said history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. You look at the war on police in the 1960s/70s, assassinations of cops by leftist icons such as Joanne Chesimard and Mumia Abu-Jamal (by the way every time you drink Starbucks, remember they ran a “Free Mumia” campaign) – it came back around when Obama was installed. Obama encouraged the targeting of police officers.
And now they’ve taken it steps further. Incrementally with things such as consent decrees to collect reams of data “proving” police are racist based on any contact with non-white people, diversity mandates, political reliability tests, body cameras, antifa-D.A.s prosecuting police for trying to do their job (looking at you Portland, Oregon), media slandering cops and encouraging their murders. It doesn’t matter they were going to “defund” and now they claim they’re not. It’s sleight of hand, look over here while we burn it down behind your back. .
There has never been a worse time to get into law enforcement. The applicant pool has disappeared, it’s nothing compared to what it was 20 years ago. The compensation does not match the expectations placed on the American police officer now. What they’ll end up with are people who should not be police officers, and disaster will result. The left loves these types of self-fulfilling prophecies.
“The applicant pool has disappeared”. Yes, a huge problem all over the Country. Standards are being lowered just to try and fill the slots. Many, many cities will never be full staffed. New Orleans for example. Many of the Dem run City PDs are operating under Federal “Consent Decrees” due to the corruption. There will no longer be many “Police Generation Families”, where Grand Pop was a Cop, Dad was a Cop, Son is a Cop. Those old days are gone. Who would encourage their 21 year old Daughter to go into the field? If a young person feels the need to serve in this sort of way…join the Military I say. THERE IS NO POLITICAL WILL TO FIX THESE URBAN PD PROPLEMS !!! Even if there were it may be too late.
Eric, you make some good points. I know of two agencies in my home state who have lost 70+ police officers in the last 6 months. These agencies are 500-600 officer departments. We cant find qualified candidates.
So, there are two solutions. Lower standards or raise wages to attract talent.
I have a difficult time with police in these cities who allow themselves to be turned into whipping boys and girls for politicians.
I laughed when the news media reported that George Floyd’s 15 year old son living in Texas not only has never met his father but the boy didn’t even know who is father was! That’s on top of being a career criminal paroled from a 15 year prison sentence because of COVID-19 and then overdosing with Fentanyl and Meth killing himself. For that we had Black people rioting for justice months on end looting and burning while the insane officials in Minneapolis put the four police officers on trial for just showing up at the scene of Floyd’s self-destruction! We are truly beyond the point of no return!
Car-jackings, home invasions, drive-by-shootings. Welcome to America.
Out here in the rural counties, they will be welcomed with open ARMS via S+W, Ruger, or Glock. Unless there’s time for the long rifles. There are places in America where this behavior will not be accepted.
At least with criminals so busy car-jacking, they didn’t have as much time in 2020 for raping.
look closer…
they are removing Americans and hiring their army.
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they already gutted the FBI and have them as a private force for The Uniparty. Police is next to bash our heads in.
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fina straw is legalizing illegals and telling them to replace the racist Nationa Guard, and defend their NEW COUNTRY by killing all domestic terrorist (You).
those 18-30 yr old men coming across the border are more than ready.
I’m glad to see and hear of this back firing on them. Why is it that morons and ignorant fools tend to work in government ? I guess it’s the place to be if your a failed lawyer or know you are useless from the start.
Pay more or lower standards. Or a combination. of the two.
Sure, the job does not require great intelligence, but not just anybody is cop material.
And btw, it can take several years or more for someone to become an effective police officer. Some officers never do catch on. Their fellow officers carry them until they retire.
The Fire Dept is far better in terms of job quality. So firefighter vacancies always have plenty of applicants.
My friend’s brother-in-law is a fire captain in a medium size California city. Generous salary, generous Calpers retirement. He works three weeks on and three weeks off. In his off time he runs a home remodeling business, and attends to his rental
properties.
We visited him in his station office once, and noticed boxes of sports memorabilia. Apparently he runs an ebay store on “down time”.
It takes 6.4 million dollars to hire/re-hire 200 cops?
I’ve never hired any law enforcement personnel other than off-duty police for security/shoplifting details, but I’m fairly certain I could get this done for a lot less than 6.4 million dollars.
10% for the Big Guy. A million to do outreach and recruiting in the “underserved community”, remedial English for Somali applicants, etc. It adds up.
“10% for the Big Guy”
good one, emet
Most of that is to rebuild the burnt down police station!
Charlotte Powell Brooks said: “It takes 6.4 million dollars to hire/re-hire 200 cops? I’ve never hired any law enforcement personnel other than off-duty police for security/shoplifting details, but I’m fairly certain I could get this done for a lot less than 6.4 million dollars.”
$6,400,000 / 200 = $32,000
$32K per person per year doesn’t sound terribly out of line… Times 200 of them…
I’m not excusing them – just pointing out that the math doesn’t look wholly unreasonable…
If the 6.4 million is for payroll, it isn’t enough. If it’s for recruiting and hiring/re-hiring, it’s over the top. A yearly salary is not a hiring process. IMHO.
Fair point.
Why did you wait an hour to call the police? You should get the RING doorbell camera. It’s battery operated and connects to your wireless internet. It will video anyone approaching your door. You might even get car in the recording. It gets the audio too so you can get them talking to each other.
They got rid of the white police officers now they can hire more blacks, women, hispanics, and illegals. They did that in Asheville NC. They were so anti-police so many senior officers left, and others, and the city officials actually said we will hire a more diverse police force. (Isn’t Minneapolis the place where that Somali officer shot the white woman who had called the police to report a prowler?,,,a lot like the black Capital police officer who shot the only (white) woman around in the Capitol Building..I heard he was a foreign national..probably from Somalia).
So sad that our beautiful Asheville has turned into San Fran east.
To begin a career in Law Enforcement today in a large city would be a risk for many.
In the past you would have had some semblance of job security.
The city governments have taken that away .
My work just moved out of MPLS and I am grateful. Such a beautiful city to fall under the spell of progressivism like many others. Downtown is a ghost town now and will be for some time.
Haha! Can’t make this stuff up. City council needs to be replaced.
Why on earth be a policeman in these cities?…… If you use your gun to protect (you or anyone else) your bosses will not back you……. They will feed you to the PC…. or BLM……
Unfortunately these cities have to burn to get the idea that the police need to be left to do their job……. and we need to back them up!
I cannot imagine any police man or women wanting to sign on to work for that city. There are plenty other cities and states who would recruit and appreciate them.to
They’re going to need it when the police officers are found not guilty and were using techniques for retraining perps they were trained on. It’s also going to be bad when the toxicology report comes back on Floyd and they find he had enough drugs in his system to knock out a rhino. The city leaders of Minneapolis and every other large democrat city better be talking to the National Guard right now.
They never give the NG bullets and the thugs know that.
Been a cop for 18 years. There is not enough money in all of Minneapolis for me to work there as L.E. I’ve got 2 years and 5 months until retirement. It’s been a good career, but the lack of public support, woke administrators, and low pay aren’t worth it anymore.
If you or anyone you know is wanting to get into the job, I’d suggest strongly reconsidering.
I retired 6 years ago, after putting in 30 years, and if I was starting out today, I would choose a different profession.
If anyone wants to convince me to support a rino. Please contact my secretary . her firsr name helen. The last name is waite.
So all the rino’s. Wanting my vote ,please go to helen waite!
I believe that Minneapolis got exactly what they wanted: All of the white cops who were any good at their job have left. They will be replaced by minorities of various stripes. They’re “replacing” the police, just not in the way that everyone thought.
I work in Minneapolis and my daughter lives in the city, so I go there almost every day, and the cops that you see are rarely white and/or male.
Those of you who have never spent a day in the uniform of a cop don’t know what you’re talking about. Been there and don that along with thousands of other great officers who will tell you point blank, they would never take that job today. Not only are civilian review boards out to destroy the reputation of a cop. The internal crap of politics plus pressure from the woke community could end ones carrier in a heartbeat. Another thing or like to address is this belief that today’s force is better educated. Street smarts and compassion along with skill sets learned on the job is where the best come from. College means nothing when you’re about to get you ass beat.
A prediction: Within two years time most police forces in the USSA will be Federalized/militarized and under the strict control of the D C Oligarchs. Many Sheriff offices will resist though, which will cause even more dissension locally. Martial Law is coming folks.. they have no other option as it’s been part of the plan for a long time. The wanna be masters of the universe feel that now total control is within their grasp. False Flags are being readied to fit the occasion. Many good honest and brave police officers will be forced out for refusing to serve the Beast system. Election reform sounds great but there may be more pressing matters to attend to at this juncture. If someone has a more optimistic scenario please let me hear it.
The border is wide open. The Capital, the center of American/Globalist power, is in lockdown. No average American can approach the ruling class. Idiots are now woke and demand action. White patriotic Americans are being driven from the ranks of a demoralized military. Free speech is DEAD. Reparations/Demands for “just us” are being proposed to further inflame passions in a rapidly deteriorating social fabric. A hard push at a gun grab is coming like a runaway train. Every conceivable perversion is rapidly becoming codified into law. It’s somewhat disconcerting to read comments here and elsewhere speculating about election reform (an utter joke) and what candidate will best articulate conservative positions in 2022 & 2024. This is delusional and dangerous at this point in time. The house is on FIRE and conservatives debate and debate and debate. The window of opportunity to fix this outrage is rapidly closing. Take your Country back America! Elections will be meaningless unless and until the rule of law is restored.
Excellent post.