Is anyone shocked? One Year After George Floyd, Minneapolis Is “Murderapolis” Again
Minneapolis recorded its second-most homicides ever in 2020 — after only 1995, when the city was ignobly dubbed “Murderapolis” in national media. And the trend has continued to escalate in 2021: between January 1 and April 25, the number of homicides increased by 92% compared to the same period in 2020. More than 80% of the shooting victims in 2020 were black.
St. Paul is in similar shape, and of course it isn't just murder, but other crime as well.
The Minneapolis Police Department didn’t specifically track carjackings as a unique category of crime until September 2020. A retroactive analysis showed a 537% increase in carjackings in one month — November 2020 — compared to November 2019. Yes, you read that correctly: 537%. (I haven’t independently corroborated this data, and it may well have been imperfectly collected, but a substantial increase seems beyond dispute.) Additional data given to me by police show that carjackings are up 180% year-to-date in 2021 between January 1 and April 25.
And if you pay attention to the dates above, some of that data is concentrated in a time of the year when the weather in Minneapolis is damn cold. Things won't be better in warmer weather.
But then if you clamour about Defunding the police, and limiting police, then it is clear that you don't want police to actually police anything. The result will be more crime.
Does anyone get the impression that Demorats love criminals and chaos? Does anyone get the impression that they'd burn down the world just to wtch the fire?
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