Downtown Minneapolis is not safe - WHY? (suburbs, parking)

[Minnesota Spring]

Originally Posted by MidwestRedux

Getting back on topic... In September, there were 29 robberies in Downtown West. While this is fewer than the 37 that took place in August, it is the highest September total going back the full 15 years for which records are available.

Whether or not the recent uptick in shootings in neighborhoods across Minneapolis is related is certainly debatable. However, it is becoming increasingly clear to me that our city leadership is not prepared to meet this challenge. '

Our mayor is qualified to run a small non-profit organization, not a major American city. Take a look at her resume:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_Hodges

Our Police Chief sounds more like a social worker than a law enforcement official:

Chief Janeé Harteau's statement on recent violenceWhat do you think?

“I continue to be concerned about the recent violence we have seen in our city. We have witnessed too many senseless and tragic deaths. The common denominator in many of the homicides this year, including the 2 most recent homicides and this evening’s shooting in Minneapolis, is that people are using guns in the heat of the moment to settle their personal disputes, making it virtually impossible for police to predict or prevent these acts. I can assure you we have teams out looking for the perpetrators of this violence. I urge anyone with information on these homicides or shootings to step forward and help us make arrests to provide justice for the families of the victims.”

AND

“Addressing gun violence is a priority for Mayor Hodges and me," Harteau said. "We are looking at all of our resources right now. Many of our suspects in the shootings this year have lengthy criminal histories. They’re not first time offenders in the criminal justice system and we need to find ways to connect those dots, and try to predict and prevent shootings before the next one occurs."

It seems like there is a proven way to stop repeat offenders from committing additional crimes - LOCK THEM UP. However, our brilliant and compassionate Chief doesn't subscribe to that theory:

She emphasized Tuesday that she believes the crime problem is about more than the size of the department. “This is beyond a police issue,” she said. “We can’t arrest our way out of it. This is beyond simply having an officer on every corner.”

Maybe the media attention that the shooting have received (the spike in robberies was completely ignored) will cause a few more people to care about this. I hope it will give them something to think about in the polling station next time around.

In the meantime, if you haven't been to Lake Calhoun lately, there are a bunch of letters on the sign for Lake Calhoun that I can't pronounce. The mayor found time to attend a climate change summit. After ruffling the feathers of most of the large employers in Minneapolis, the employee leave laws appear to be on the back burner, for now. These are the things that our city officials believe are more important than our safety.

Instead of kicking the thugs who rub people out of downtown, it appears more likely that Ms. Hodges and company are more likely to chase some of our largest employers out of downtown. Isn't it ironic, don't ya think?

Well then obviously as a Minneapolis resident it's up to you to try to pursuade your neighbors to vote her out in next years election.

[MidwestRedux]

Originally Posted by Minnesota Spring

Well then obviously as a Minneapolis resident it's up to you to try to pursuade your neighbors to vote her out in next years election.

Ageed. I'll try. I don't care which political party our next mayor is affiliated with. I just hope that he or she has a better grasp on reality.

[MDude25]

Originally Posted by Astron1000

For African immigrants, St. Paul starting to feel more like home - TwinCities.com

http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...mmigrants-have

[MDude25]

Originally Posted by Old Prospector

why wont the mainstream media report on the ethiopan somali turf wars taking place right now in bursville ?

Somalia and Ethiopia hate each other, they've fought wars previously so for the White House and DoJ to think it was a good idea to settle mass number of migrants from these two countries in Minnesota was a good idea is crazy. Then again I think they just want to create a demographic shift and ethnic tension. Mainstream media is busy covering stories that serve their narrative.

[OpenMind11]

Sounds like we'd get along! I'm also from MD!

[CCbaxter]

Good both of you stay there And you won't suffer from any of the White House forced migrations.
You know, or whatever.

[Chester Burnett]

So 150K people commuting downtown for work plus residents, times 30 days is over five million people a month and the difference between 20 and 40 robberies is so statistically significant that people are worried about their safety? People should be moderately concerned for their safety at all times to the extent of being aware of your surroundings and prudent in your interactions with strangers. Basics like knowing how to not make yourself an obvious target ie: wandering around alone, inebriated and well dressed at night. Other than that the difference between a 4 in a million chance and an 8 in a million chance of getting robbed seems pretty silly to get worked up over.

Doesn't City-Data have a special forum for xenophobic ranting?

[Ghengis]

Originally Posted by Chester Burnett

So 150K people commuting downtown for work plus residents, times 30 days is over five million people a month and the difference between 20 and 40 robberies is so statistically significant that people are worried about their safety? People should be moderately concerned for their safety at all times to the extent of being aware of your surroundings and prudent in your interactions with strangers. Basics like knowing how to not make yourself an obvious target ie: wandering around alone, inebriated and well dressed at night. Other than that the difference between a 4 in a million chance and an 8 in a million chance of getting robbed seems pretty silly to get worked up over.

Doesn't City-Data have a special forum for xenophobic ranting?

no, we're free to start one up any ol' place it strikes our fancy

[Unsettomati]

Originally Posted by MDude25

Somalia and Ethiopia hate each other, they've fought wars previously so for the White House and DoJ to think it was a good idea to settle mass number of migrants from these two countries in Minnesota was a good idea is crazy. Then again I think they just want to create a demographic shift and ethnic tension. Mainstream media is busy covering stories that serve their narrative.

Let me try and figure out what you're saying:

Mostly young Somalis and Ethiopians hate each other because of a war fought in the 1970s that almost none of them actually experienced. So the White House diabolically decided to send them all to Minnesota, using a time machine to establish the Twin Cities as a focal point for Ethiopian and Somali emigrants by travelling back to the mid-1970s (when the Ethiopian population in the Twin Cities was established) and then stopping off in the late-1980s/early-1990s (when the Somali population in the Twin Cities was established) before setting the flux capacitor to return to the years of the Obama Presidency. And they did this all because the White House wants an anti-immigrant backlash, because they're a Bond villian-type caricature.

And this makes sense to you... ?

Originally Posted by jamies

It is high crime because their gun laws suck almost as much as Commiefornia and are not consistant. If you people start shooting criminals I promise the crime will drop.

Here in the real world, Minnesota has the ninth-lowest violent crime rate in the country. Oh, and as for California? It has a lower violent crime rate than your gun-fetishing paradise of Arizona.
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/uc...state_2013.xls

Just wondering... doesn't it kind of suck when reality just never jibes with your dogma?

[FierySun]

Originally Posted by Chester Burnett

So 150K people commuting downtown for work plus residents, times 30 days is over five million people a month and the difference between 20 and 40 robberies is so statistically significant that people are worried about their safety? People should be moderately concerned for their safety at all times to the extent of being aware of your surroundings and prudent in your interactions with strangers. Basics like knowing how to not make yourself an obvious target ie: wandering around alone, inebriated and well dressed at night. Other than that the difference between a 4 in a million chance and an 8 in a million chance of getting robbed seems pretty silly to get worked up over.

Doesn't City-Data have a special forum for xenophobic ranting?

Two actually, Politics and Current Events. Both of which have basically become Stormfront lite.