13 days, 22 murders

Going well in Minneapolis

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...2f741a-1a1d-11eb-befb-8864259bd2d8_story.html

 

But if the violence is from community members themselves, why don’t the community activists just ask them not to commit crime? Or disband the police completely and give the taxpayers money to those who otherwise would commit crime. Make it a job not to shoot and rob. Pay them a weekly wage equal to that of a police officer with benefits, to obey the law. All those taxpayers who want to defund the police will get their wish and provide employment to the underclass.
Problem solved.

 

Murder crimes not being solved at an effective rate.

Opinion | Why Did the N.Y.P.D. Solve Fewer Crimes Last Year?

 

What do you want? Crime prevented? Crime solved? Fuck the police when they do the job. Fuck the police when they don’t do the job.
Seriously, I want police held publicly accountable and to act in a civilized manner. How about the same volume of wanting the criminals to stop killing and shooting?

 

People are being so mean to police! Leave the police alone; they’re jobs are just ever so hard! /cryinggif

 

I’m not sure I “want” anything.

Murders are skyrocketing. It’s a fact. Wrestle or not wrestle as you please.

 

Think people are taking the opportunity to commit murders while the police are in time out? There have been more murders committed in the US in the last 30 days, than unjustified police shootings in the last 15 years.

 

I thought blue font was understood...

 

I’m colorblind

but to be clear, there isn’t a misplaced sense of outrage. But an under emphasized sense of concern. We can work to eliminate all police abuses and work to eliminate violent crimes, at the same time. There just doesn’t seem to be a motivation to do so

 

Violence in Minneapolis is a series of tragedies in 2021.

Grandfather: Girl, 6, struck by gunfire while riding in car in Minneapolis dies

So far this year, the city's 27 homicides are nearly double what they were at this point in 2020, and 187 people have been wounded or killed in shootings — a tally the city didn't reach until June 21 in 2020, according to Police Department crime statistics. More worryingly, 22 children have been struck by gunfire, half of them shot since March 28, the statistics show.

 

But we can't do anything about gun violence, remember? The sacrosanct Second Amendment trumps all.

 

So what’s the solution you’d like to see?