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You’re entitled to your opinion. Speaking as someone who has lived almost my entire life in the Twin Cities and within the city limits for the last 12 years, I respectfully disagree. I would argue that up to the onset of COVID the city was the best it has been during my lifetime. And the Somalis didn’t make the city worse, they actually made it better and have spurred new businesses and added vibrancy to the Cedar-Riverside area and along E. Lake St.
Now things are different due to COVID, but even with the recent setback the city is in many ways still a vast improvement over how it was during the 80s, 90s and early 2000s. During the mid-90s there were nearly 100 homicides a year (you may recall that during this time it was nicknamed “Murderapolis”).
Look at all the new development in areas like downtown, uptown and around the U of M. If the city was so rotten then why did the population increase by nearly 50,000 people in the last 10 years? That is typically not the sign of hell-hole city.
Disagree all you want. My cousin there has been a prominent attorney there for 35 years and I have been going there 2-3 times a year for that period.
The population has increased so much as they added nearly 100,000 Somalis.
There is nice development near the University there. There are also very nice areas downtown. However, crime rate has definitely increased since the 90s. Crime rates were much higher everywhere in the US in the 70s. The reason? Many of the criminals of today have been aborted.
If you have lived there your whole life-
a. you are a democrat
b. you know that Minneapolis has become more dangerous with the Somalis
c. there are businesses and professional practices that are leaving the downtown
d. many businesses look like Mogadishu, as there is often someone behind the cash register in a veil
Let's face it- Minneapolis has gone downhill since the 90s.
Disagree all you want. My cousin there has been a prominent attorney there for 35 years and I have been going there 2-3 times a year for that period.
The population has increased so much as they added nearly 100,000 Somalis.
There is nice development near the University there. There are also very nice areas downtown. However, crime rate has definitely increased since the 90s. Crime rates were much higher everywhere in the US in the 70s. The reason? Many of the criminals of today have been aborted.
If you have lived there your whole life-
a. you are a democrat
b. you know that Minneapolis has become more dangerous with the Somalis
c. there are businesses and professional practices that are leaving the downtown
d. many businesses look like Mogadishu, as there is often someone behind the cash register in a veil
Let's face it- Minneapolis has gone downhill since the 90s.
Are you basing this off feelings? The data supports that crime (across all major categories) peaked in the mid-90s and has decreased significantly since then. Since I’ve been living in South Minneapolis the neighborhoods have improved with the construction of the two light rail lines, the redevelopment of the Midtown Global Market and Midtown Greenway. Where there was previously blight and empty parking lots there are now farmers markets, community gardens, breweries, coffee shops, co-ops. Abandoned factories and warehouses have been converted to condos and apartments. Some call it gentrification and I would agree. I’ve lived through this transformation.
Back in 2008 in our old neighborhood there was a child prostitution ring taking place a block away and drug deals taking place on the corner. My car was broken into multiple times and my garage got tagged with gang graffiti. Since then the area improved and the homes doubled in value. Thanks gentrification. Northeast and uptown have also gone through heavy gentrification in the last few decades. In my mind it isn’t even debatable that the city is better now than it was in the 90’s.
Yes because Minneapolis is the only city in the country where unarmed black men are getting killed at the hands of the police department right? And Minneapolis is the only place in the country where civil unrest is occurring as a result of police killings, right?
Naw, Most all the Democrat run cities where unarmed black men were gunned down are similar
Somalis might make the city less violent than some of the locals but I can guaranteed the number of Female Genital Mutilations have sky rocketed. Third world chit being brought to the USA
"Athough the procedure is illegal in the United States, many Somali natives now residing in the U.S. underwent FGM as young girls and still live with pain. And, in some Somali communities, the practice is carried out in secret."
Does it not dawn on these leftists that tens of millions of would be minorities wouldn’t flee to a place in order to be oppressed? The irony is that they are fleeing actually oppression(totalitarianism, widespread corruption, religious persecution, terrorism, gangs, etc). As Tucker would say why would you want your country run by people who hate it?
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