With violent crime on the rise in Minneapolis, City Council asks: Where are the police?

[Klaralven]

The meeting was slated as a Minneapolis City Council study session on police reform.

But for much of the two-hour meeting, council members told police Chief Medaria Arradondo that their constituents are seeing and hearing street racing which sometimes results in crashes, brazen daylight carjackings, robberies, assaults and shootings. And they asked Arradondo what the department is doing about it.

"Residents are asking, ‘Where are the police’?” said Jamal Osman, newly elected council member of Ward 6. He said he's already been inundated with complaints from residents that calls for police aren’t being answered.

“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 said.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/09/15/with-violent-crime-on-the-rise-in-mpls-city-council-asks-where-are-the-police

[Cirque du So-What]

6. Can't people expect the police to do their jobs

without knee-on-chest murders? Is that too much to ask?

[John Drake]

2. But why post this right-wing crap here?

Minnesota Public Radio is a notoriously right-wing, GOP supporting outfit.

Please find an unbiased source or delete this post!

[Klaralven]

3. MediaBias/FactCheck has them at Left-Center?

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/minnesota-public-radio-mpr/

[Celerity]

5. Better question. Why are you posting easily debunked, disruptive bollocks? You are the one who

should self-delete.

Welcome to DU.


https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/minnesota-public-radio-mpr/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. MPR is nothing of the kind.

It's a well-regarded, publicly supported radio station to which I donate from time to time. And what they just reported was true.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. Police don't prevent crime? The hell you say!

[sarisataka]

7. Ironic. /nt

[Cirque du So-What]

8. I agree that it's ironic

that public-service employees would make themselves conspicuous in their absence where they are needed most, yet are Johnny-on-the-spot when there’s an opportunity for a gang of them to take down a citizen and conduct a training day-like exercise in murder.

[Aristus]

10. The police ARE the violent crime.

I thought everyone knew that...