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sboatcar

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4. My take on this is that there's a bunch of factors playing into it

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Sat Nov 28, 2020, 10:43 PM

Nov 2020

The first being covid. Its put a lot of people out of work, closed bars, and sent kids home from school. There's lots of people lacking ways to blow off steam.
The second is MPD. I'm convinced that they're intentionally punishing the city by slowing down responses or not responding at all to a lot of the calls. This isn't from the MPD leadership, this comes directly from the police union.

My solution....dissolve the police union and get rid of its leadership and if they want a union they can join AFL/CIO. They'll get the same worker protections, but without all of the blatant racism and childish tactics that are actually harming people.

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Minneapolis momentum is being crushed by the crime wave - By Kate Mortenson [View all] question everything Nov 2020 OP

I was looking at moving to Minneapolis or Portland. Put a check next to Portland. LizBeth Nov 2020 #1

This is such a garbage article. WhiskeyGrinder Nov 2020 #2

I think this is happening in other places too. LisaM Nov 2020 #3

It isn't their 'training'... OldBaldy1701E Nov 2020 #7

No, I don't want want more of "them". LisaM Nov 2020 #9

Absolutely not OldBaldy1701E Nov 2020 #21

No, you don't digress. I get it. LisaM Nov 2020 #22

Yes OldBaldy1701E Dec 2020 #23

And training would improve the profiling issue. LisaM Dec 2020 #24

Amen to that! (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Dec 2020 #26

My take on this is that there's a bunch of factors playing into it sboatcar Nov 2020 #4

I'm with you BainsBane Nov 2020 #6

Many police departments have bargaining units that are affiliated with the AFL-CIO. WhiskeyGrinder Nov 2020 #8

I agree, but if you look at the minneapolis police union sboatcar Nov 2020 #10

Sure, Bob Kroll is an asshole. But he's an asshole running a white supremacist institution that has WhiskeyGrinder Nov 2020 #12

So do you have an ideas for how it can be fixed? sboatcar Nov 2020 #13

As a police abolitionist, I'm a fan of tearing it all down. WhiskeyGrinder Nov 2020 #14

I think we need some level of law enforcement sboatcar Nov 2020 #15

A protection model thrives on an us/them mindset that results in uneven policing. WhiskeyGrinder Nov 2020 #16

Not this one BainsBane Nov 2020 #18

I know. WhiskeyGrinder Nov 2020 #19

The police are punishing us BainsBane Nov 2020 #5

Exactly! sboatcar Nov 2020 #11

Frey needs to go BainsBane Nov 2020 #17

I agree, I never liked him much, and he hasn't shown any decent leadership skills sboatcar Nov 2020 #20

I am a 911 dispatcher. I have worked with police for 20 years. the_sly_pig Dec 2020 #25