Caffeinate The World wrote:
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>>I agree that the level of street crime activity in North Phillips is
>>at
>>epidemic proportions.
>>
>Once I asked a police officer why they don't do more about those drug
>dealers. He responded that after they bust them, they pop right back in
>the street. Obviously they can't hold them very long because the amount
>they carry is usually not that much to get them long jail terms.
>
If they "pop right back in the streets" after arrest, police are not the
issue. It lies with either the city or county attorney. Misdemeanor and
gross misdemeanor belong to the Mpls. city attorney's office, if it hits
felony level, it goes to the Hennepin Co. Atty's office. People are
given bail to follow the law.
>Another tactic drug dealers use is to have juvenile deal for them on
>the street corners.
>
Dealers pull their younger siblings, neighbors kids, and cousins into
"the life." It is an induction process. In the process of so doing, they
further indoctrinate younger siblings by discouraging them from going to
school. Usually, the families have one working parent who works at some
low paid labor. Mom or Dad or Grandmother's telling kids they have to
get themselves up for school cause she'll be at work. Big brother is not
helping mom but letting the little ones slide and miss the schoolbus.
Big brother starts the day by using the products he's selling. You can
take it from there to the consequences to all.
>If anything has to change is the law regarding drug dealing and using.
>
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. The dealers carry little, it's
stashed on the properties rented or owned by drug and gang members in
the immediate area. Often it is kept outdoors in nooks and crannies
along alleys, in front and side yards, in cars. Street dealers will also
deal from your front porch if you're not home during the day to have
people believing that your house is the problem house (or your apartment
building if you're the landlord).
>I'm curious if drug dealing would decrease if we ban SUV's from
>entering N. Phillips / Ventura. *wink*
>
>...oO( wireless Webcams along Franklin ) Nah.
>
After years of frustration with lobbying to make laws to contend with
dealing, I decided it was lots of effort for damn little in return. Then
I started drawing on my own history as the daughter of a almost
life-long petty criminal who never did any jail time. I can tell you
from experience of my own and with the felons and misdemeanants in my
neighborhood, that keeping the bright kids in a neighborhood busy from
morning to night doing positive things is the more effective way to
break the cycle.
The way we now attempt to break the cycle is to further belittle,
discount, abuse (verbally and legally) people who have seldom known any
other behavior. (My mother was raised in a violent family followed by a
violent orphanage and Mary Jo Copeland can jump in the lake with her
orphanage tied to her foot from my perspective. My father was the petty
criminal, but not being violent, I adored him. It was he who made petty
criminalism seem logical. My aunts and uncles thought the laws didn't
make sense, since the only time they had enough to live on was when the
men were engaged in petty criminalism and going to their jobs every day.
My aunts all had jobs too.
Poverty creates and advance the drug trade, prostitution, family abuse,
rape, homicide, burglary, auto theft, etc.--all the street crimes. To
break the trade you have to break the cycle of violence and poverty.
Police are not structured to do that, neither are courts. How do we do that?
WizardMarks, Central
>
>
>Thomas T. Thai / S. Mpls
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