Chaos in the Streets of Minneapolis

This is exactly what the Democrats asked for. It remains to be seen if this is what they actually wanted. After July 4th shooting, Minneapolis braces for more gun violence - StarTribune

So no one wants to be a cop in Minneapolis. Are we shocked?

Due to the shortfall of officers, there were 80 officers to respond to calls on July 4th into the morning of the 5th. Which is a lot more than you would find on an average night.

"The Democrats' repeated cries to defund the police and their failure to act on critical public safety measures have turned Minnesota's largest city and surrounding communities into places where criminals feel emboldened to attack and injure law enforcement officers and the public, creating more chaos in our streets," Nick Majerus, spokesman for the Republican Party of Minnesota, said Tuesday in a statement. "This is unacceptable."

Of course nothing will change. The Democrats in Minneapolis will continue to vote for Progressive politicians and their Progressive, soft-on-crime policies. And the results of that shouldn't surprise anyone.

The number of homicides this year is just shy of 2019's year-end total, according to data tracked by the Star Tribune, which includes people killed by police. In a dozen years before the pandemic, the city averaged 17 homicides by this point in the summer — putting the violence of the past two years far above Minneapolis' baseline.

At the time the article linked above was published there had been 47 homicides in Minneapolis in 2022. And say it again - that was just shy of the year-end total for 2019. So no where near as bad as Chicago or Philadelphia or Baltimore, but not good.

As for the staffing shortfall, it won't get fixed soon.

[City Council Member Michael] Rainville, who was elected last year, said the city has struggled to find new officers who want to work in Minneapolis. "We allocated for four classes of 40 recruits; the first class we had 12," he said. "Young people do not want to become police officers. Police have been demonized so much, it's not an attractive career."

The state is trying to help out by assigning more state troopers, and the air division to help out in Minneapolis and crack down on things like street racing. The US attorney has also said he wants to help on certain crimes.

The Democrats wanted fewer cops. MPD went from a staff of 886 to 564 in 2 years. That is a 36% reduction in the force. You can't cut staff like that and not expect to see some result, like longer response time to 911 calls.

I am reminded of the quote from Ian Flemming, from Goldfinger. "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action." I'm not sure why the Democrats are so intent on destroying law and order, but they certainly seem to be doing just that.