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Minneapolis Slashes Police Budget by $8 Million Despite Record Crime Levels
But they did vote against decreasing staff.
Despite record crime rates in their city, the Minneapolis City Council passed a budget that takes $8 million from the police department and puts it towards “alternative public safety strategies.”
Such alternative public safety strategies include mental health, social, and non-police response services.
Although the city council unanimously cut the police budget, they voted 7-6 to remove language about decreasing staff and to increase recruitment opportunities. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey threatened to veto the budget if the council remained committed to reducing staff from 888 to 750.
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The Minneapolis City Council has toned down their initial call to defund the police and radically transform the concept of public safety. It still appears they are committed to achieving that goal over the long-term; they just won’t try to achieve it at breakneck speed.
Minneapolis has been struggling with increased crime since the George Floyd riots. Homicides are up 85 percent, carjackings are up 331 percent, and there have been 532 gunshot victims so far in 2020, which is up more than 100 percent from 2019. The Wall Street Journal also published a story about the city’s woes Thursday titled “George Floyd Memorial Thrives, but Minneapolis Neighborhood Struggles.”
Back in mid-November Big League Politics reported on the Minneapolis City Council’s approval of a $500,000 appropriation to hire police officers from neighboring cities, due to an exodus of Minneapolis officers leaving the force:
Minneapolis Council Spending $500K to Recruit “Temporary Officers” Following Exodus of Police
And in September Minneapolis city councilors described their constituents as “terrorized” by high crime rates and stated that the Minneapolis PD is often “nowhere to be seen”:
Minneapolis Residents “Terrorized” by Crime Wave; Police “Nowhere to be Seen” After Defunding Push
If present demographic and crime trends continue, Minneapolis will resemble Detroit within the next decade or two. It will be a husk of its once thriving self—and it will have all been self-inflicted.
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White Pill: Montana House Moves Constitutional Carry Bill Forward
Constitutional Carry is one ray of hope for the Right.
On January 20, 2021, the Montana House of Representatives passed Constitutional Carry legislation, HB102.
Dean Weingarten of Ammoland.com reported that the bill passed by a 66 to 31 margin.
Weingarten provided some context to the significance of this bill’s progress:
The bill is the accumulation of a decade and a half of struggle against Democrat Governors, who have repeatedly vetoed reform legislation passed with large majorities in the legislature. Numerous sections in the bill show the Montana legislature has learned the lesson from other states as they restore the right to keep and bear arms.
Montana’s Senate is made up of 31 Republicans and 19 Democrats and Governor Greg Gianforte is a Republican, so the passage of this bill augurs well. If passed, HB102 would make Montana the 17th Constitutional Carry state.
Montana is already a very gun-friendly state, and represents a low-hanging fruit for Second Amendment activists to tap into.
Constitutional Carry has been one of the most successful movements on the Right over the past twenty years. It’s easy to complain about the corrupt status quo, but there are still plenty of ways right-wingers can score victories. Constitutional Carry is one of them.
It would behoove the Right to analyze existing trends and build off movements that are already producing results. There’s no need to embark on quixotic campaigns that end up being total fools’ errands. Find what’s already working and run with it.
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