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Here is an interesting fact. NYC is always depicted as having lots of crime. People in LA complain about the horrible crime, about how it's the worst ever. The whole nation thinks about how LA has such terrible crime rates... Well guess what? Did you know that Minneapolis has higher crime rates than BOTH New York City and LA?! Check it out for yourself on city-data.com! I read the stats, I double checked- Minneapolis is truely "Murderapolis". This is even harder to believe because of the fact that it's extremely difficult to commit crimes in Minneapolis for half the year due to the unbearable cold! What can we do to stop the crime? To be honest, I have no idea. Does anyone else have any thoughts about this?
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Firstly, I don't see NY and LA being safer as a bad thing. I know alot of places in Metro LA aren't in city limits, for ex. East Los Angeles is unincorporated. New York cleaned up its act as of recent, it is one of the safest metros of any large size in the nation. Mpls. has its problems and it is unfair to compare cities in the manner you did. Mpls. has very specific problems that are actually pretty easy to fix.
1. Most crime is committed by young men. Make after school programs, enforce truency. 2. The problem is mostly confined to the Northside. This is not an excuse as much as an important fact. It has implications both good and bad. 3. Mid-sized metros have experienced a wave of crime as criminals move out of now safe cities like New York and Los Angeles. Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Denver all experienced crime waves at the same time we did. 4. Generally, Mpls. isn't dangerous to the common citizen. 5. Crime, while up from the last year or so, is substantially down from the 90's. It is an important consideration. 6. Crime does not stem from poverty. Anyone who tells you differently has fallen for fallacy. West Virginia is a very safe state. With that lined out, here's what I would do. Crack down on truency. Keep updated information on young boys who commit menial crimes. Increase Local Government Aid to major cities to pay for police and services. (Mister Pawlenty hurt more than libraries, I feel he disdains the inner city) Use technology to fight crime. The new city-wide Wi-Fi system I know will be used in this manner. 1 copper watching a series of cameras is walking many beats at once. Also, police should walk, bike and be on horse back. Police in squads are only responding, they need to learn the area they are patroling. I subscribe to the broken windows theory. Perception is more important than reality and the crack-looking house on the corner doesn't help the situation. Simple things help alot. It isn't as hard as you think |
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/\Then why isn't Phillips more dangerous than the northside? South Mpls. is more dense and more poor. The truth is that criminals happen to be poor, not the other way around. I have a friend who lives around Southdale. That area is packed with cheap rentals in three and four story apartments. Yet there is NO crime there. Curious, huh?
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what is up with all this fear mongering on this board? Minneapolis is really not that bad. Ok, yea theres more crime than the nice suburbs surrounding it but that's true of almost any city. I have relatives from the burbs that come in for Vikings games and such... they see "sexworld" and they assume the warehouse district is a bunch of prostitutes. they see kids in baggy jeans and headphones and assume "its a gang". people think they "see" things but they don't get the whole story.
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**sigh**
if you look at the 25 most dangerous cities you will see 90% of them are small cities with 150k-400k people i say that because these smaller cities have higher rates than big cities because the big cities have a much bigger population therefore more of a population of people who dont cause crime Minneapolis doesnt have any out of control neighborhoods and its crime is really not bad. neighborhood for neighborhood minneapolis doesnt have a true ghetto or a rundown area there are neighborhoods of LA and NYC that are out of control with crime and no hope for change, minnesotta as a state doesnt have 1 hood like that ive been to Minneapolis 4 times and its like disneyworld to cities with real bad problems and for those who say look at the 90's that doesnt hold weight because EVERY major city had a huge crime problem back then because of crack cocaine. |
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Minneapolis population also tends to be peppered with old stubborn Scandinavians who didnt leave when certain areas got bad. A lot of them play "trash duty" on certain blocks (Ive seen it several times). This is a big part of the reason why a lot of areas in North may seem okay from the visual standpoint but not so great when you plot the crimes.
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