Are you really saying that police brutality is the price we have to pay in order to fight crime? I think that police brutality encourages crime in a couple of ways: it sets a role model for brutal behavior and it discourages nonviolent people from calling the police when they are victims of crime or see a crime happening.
Rosalind Nelson Bancroft neighborhood, census tract 9600. (According to the city website's CODEFOR stats, there were 21 serious crimes in Bancroft in 4/03 versus 11 in Bryn Mawr and 37 in Cedar-Riverside. According to the city's census stats, Bancroft census tract 9600 has a 43.66% minority population, versus 9.42% in Bryn Mawr and 58.95% in Cedar-Riverside.) Dennis Plante wrote: > Personally, I have nothing but contempt for individuals that live in > nice, middle-class neighborhoods that are working as "crusaders" > against issues such as police brutality. Drive by my house 24/7 and > see what I have to contend with, then drive into one of the more > affluent neighborhoods, such as Bryn Mawr, or Kenwood and see what > they have to contend with. As I write this, at the end of my block, > there are 5-6 individuals (standing on the corner) selling drugs, and > another 6-8 indivduals on the front porch of an abandoned house > gambling. I make roughly 12-15 calls/week to 911 on this activity. > It still occurs 24/7. Who's being brutalized? Bancroft 2347 564 52 175 237 231 3606 366 TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
