By Liz Navratil Star Tribune February 12, 2021
Minneapolis will hire dozens more police officers after the City Council on Friday agreed to release $6.4 million to bring on additional recruits. The unanimous vote came eight days after Minneapolis police requested the funding, saying they had 200 fewer police officers available to work than in most recent years. The additional funding comes at a time when some City Council members and activist groups are pushing to replace the Police Department in the wake of George Floyd's death.(Snip) In the months since then, some residents have begged city leaders to hire additional officers, saying they're waiting longer for responses to emergency calls amid
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Despite their claims to the contrary, liberals aren't big thinkers. They chased the cops away, physically attacking them calling them bastids, and now they have a dramatic uptick in violent crime and longer emergency call response times. What to do? Keep running in circles..........Original Article
My Take - A comment from one of my correspondents:
Defund the police!!! Oh no, pay more to hire more police!! ROFLMAO!! This is so hilarious and pathetic!!! The inevitable and obvious result of what these people have done, and it was clear from the get go this is what would happen. Talk about a gross dereliction of duty on the part of elected officials!!