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-War on Police-
Crime soars in Minneapolis as cops fear being unfairly targeted in woke viral videos
2021-09-15
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Proactive policing in Minneapolis plunged dramatically following the murder of George Floyd last year, even as violent mostly peaceful crime soared, a new analysis reveals as the city prepares to vote on a ballot initiative to abolish the police department.

In the year following Floyd's death, traffic stops in Minneapolis plunged 74 percent, patrols of known problem areas were down 76 percent, and stops of suspicious people plunged 75 percent, according to a Rooters investigation.

Confidential police sources said that part of the slowdown was due to a staffing shortage amid an exodus from the department, but that much of the reduction in policing was due to a fear of being caught up in an incident that could go viral in a climate of anti-cop sentiment.

One officer said that some Minneapolis cops even deliberately take a longer route than necessary to respond to 911 calls, in the hope that whatever the emergency is, it will be resolved by the time they arrive.

In April, the average police response time to priority 911 calls was 40 percent longer than it had been a year earlier, Rooters found.

With fewer police stops, cops have fewer chances to recover illegal drugs and guns, and violent mostly peaceful crime has soared, with the murder rate in Minneapolis on pace to hit a 20-year high. Some residents now call the city a 'gangster's paradise'.

Posted by:Fred

#8  

Sounds like a viable working plan.
Why get blamed for doing the job.
Just let WOKE continue killing the WOKEN until they WAKE-UP to the fact that they are 98% of the problem.

Not the Police.


Posted by: NN2N1   2021-09-15 08:13  

#7  It's not ruling class, it's elite replacement.
Posted by: Blinky Pholuling8616   2021-09-15 06:49  

#6  Three certainties:

1) This country will fragment into two separate communities with separate cultural and informational realities -- the Woke people (maybe 30-35% of total US) and the normies and their sympathizers (65-70%)

2) Woke US will continue to rule the "commanding heights" of the federal administrative state, top brass in the Pentagon, the intelligence community, Big Tech and the Fortune 500's leadership ranks, the media, entertainment and academe

1) + 2) = the fragmentation / separation is not going to happen peacefully.

There will be bloodshed.

The only Q now is which state will fulfill the Bleeding Kansas role. My money is on a formerly-normal, liberararian-leading mountain state near the border where the Wokesters are trying desperately to take over -- likely AZ or CO
Posted by: Lampedusa Flaiting3493   2021-09-15 06:20  

#5  ^The next few years are going to be bad.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-09-15 06:05  

#4  #3 ^Why would a ruling class promote revolution?

They don't want revolution. They want "revolution" - a pale imitation of the real thing, that leads to Great Society 3.0.

Correct. This is what's known as a "revolution from above" -- a permanent consolidation of power by a combination of extra-legal and legal means.

"Great Society 3.0" has a distinctly Woke, post-COVID flavor. This time, the focus is not on government spending programs aimed at ghetto recipients but on massive giveaways aimed at creating a permanent, central role for the state in everyone's life:
- UBI
- selective law enforcement / end of equal protection
- the crippling of law enforcement everywhere
- institutionalized voting fraud and manipulation of outcomes via absentee balloting shenanigans that are now standard in every urban area and most blue states
- politicization of the US military at all levels
- maoist "struggle sessions" & political re-education efforts led by race-hucksters
Posted by: Glager Henbane4118   2021-09-15 06:01  

#3  ^Why would a ruling class promote revolution?

They don't want revolution. They want "revolution" - a pale imitation of the real thing, that leads to Great Society 3.0. Revolution means mass graves. Great Society 3.0 means all kinds of set-asides for tailor-made NGO's their spouses can have a hand in. At the rate this is going, we might have Asians, blacks and Hispanics voting overwhelmingly Republican just to get police protection. White libs don't care - they don't live in places that require police protection. I'm hoping that murder rates get back to where they were in the early 90's. Where this kind of thing is concerned, the worse, the better.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2021-09-15 03:03  

#2  ^Why would a ruling class promote revolution?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-09-15 02:44  

#1  The chaos is all part of the plan. The left needs to create human misery in large amounts. Otherwise, who's going to want a revolution? People won't have shitty lives on their own so the left needs to step in and make it happen.
Posted by: Blinky Pholuling8616   2021-09-15 00:47  

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