{"id":39504,"date":"2020-07-24T11:36:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T15:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39504"},"modified":"2020-07-24T11:36:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T15:36:50","slug":"some-common-sense-from-the-minneapolis-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39504","title":{"rendered":"Some Common Sense From The Minneapolis City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Ed Morrissey at Hot Air<\/a> posted an article about a recent decision by the Minneapolis City Council.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Give credit where due for thinking outside of the box, I guess, although this idea belongs<\/em> in a box \u2026 buried under the St. Anthony Falls. In the Minneapolis city council\u2019s haste to prove it doesn\u2019t need a professional and trained police force to keep the peace, they nearly decided to pay ad hoc bands of armed citizens to patrol the streets<\/a>. Only late inquiries about this proposal from city residents and local media managed to change their minds:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Minneapolis City Council briefly considered diverting money from police to citizen patrols, with the council\u2019s public safety chairwoman suggesting an armed group as one that could potentially benefit.<\/strong><\/p>\n

During a budget meeting last week, Council Member Alondra Cano proposed cutting $500,000 from the Minneapolis Police Department for the citizen groups.<\/strong><\/p>\n

She described it as an effort to \u201crespond to the hundreds of people who have formed their own community safety patrol systems to keep their blocks and their neighborhoods safe in this time of deep transition.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

She and nine of her colleagues voted in favor of adding the provision to the 2020 budget. On Wednesday, after residents and reporters contacted city officials seeking details about the proposal, the council walked it back.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Common sense made a brief appearance in the Minneapolis City Council.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

The Star Tribune notes that the city council seems to be out of rational ideas about how to make their no-policy fantasy into reality, which is how vigilantism nearly got a $500,000 grant and endorsement:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The change reveals how the City Council is struggling to come up with alternatives to the Minneapolis Police Department, even as a majority has vowed to end it. Council members and city staffers have, at times, found themselves unclear about what various proposals mean, even after they have voted on them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In other words, the city council is completely incompetent, and now obviously so. This would qualify as satire if not for the lives that have already been lost and the lives that will be lost in the near future due to their failures to perform their basic duties as public officials. The city council is responsible for the police department and its performance, but they do not want Minneapolis residents to realize that. Instead, they want to pretend that a modern city of 425,000-plus residents don\u2019t need law enforcement, mainly because they want to abdicate their own responsibilities for managing it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Minneapolis is a home-rule charter city<\/a>, so the state doesn\u2019t have too many options in dealing with this disaster. The city\u2019s voters will have to act to put an end to the circus they elected. In the meantime, the cities around them will have to deal with the fallout \u2014 and business owners will start looking elsewhere for better environments in which to operate.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the reason voting matters. The only way to improve the government of Minneapolis is to vote for people who actually understand how to make things better. The current city council obviously does not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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