The Minneapolis city council is now accelerating the spike in crime. In
June, nine of them declared that they would abolish the police,
seemingly because the police were causing more crime than they
prevented. This proclamation greatly encouraged the criminals in
Minneapolis. The police were now the bad guys. The criminals felt they
were completely justified in robbing and killing and vandalizing because
they were the good guys. Note that the city council resolution occurred
just before the spike in crime.
Now the city council is doubling down. My city council person Andrea
Jenkins has created a “Truth & Reconciliation Process” to “curb the
violence.” This process is to examine in detail the harms done to racial
minorities in the past which will supposedly get at the root cause of
crime in Minneapolis.
This will not work, and in fact will further increase crime. The root
cause of crime is the lack of shame by criminals when they break things
and hurt people. The city council is giving them more excuses for doing
their crimes. Our criminals will wallow in their victimhood and will
continue to do bad deeds while self-righteously blaming society for what
they’ve done.
I am sure Andrea Jenkins and the city council are sincere in their
beliefs that these actions will deter crime. But it is the people of
Minneapolis who are suffering. We need to tell the council that they
should stop excusing crime, and support the police in fighting it.
This is the link to the resolution.
https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/RCA/15173/Truth%20and%20Reconciliation%20Process%20Resolution.pdf?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term=