Let me get this right- a police department that is about a hundred officers understaffed is going to spend all day driving to Starbuck and back to bring me to justice for serial possession of pealing paint? And our county jail that has cells sitting unused because of Republican initiated state funding cuts is going to kick out a violent felon to make room for a crippled old lady who can't paint trim 20 feet up?.
Wouldn't surprise me a bit if they did!
Our City Attorney closes with the final "put the fear of the law in 'em" admonishment: "you must bring your property into full compliance with the applicable Minneapolis ordinances or you may be charged for another violation". What this means is that while I'm imprisoned serving my 90 day sentence for criminal possession of peeling paint I won't be able to paint my house. I probably won't be able to mow the lawn or shovel the snow from jail either. That's three more charges that can be used to send me back to jail for another 270 days. I won't be able to do same in that 270 days of imprisonment either... It's thusly possible to sentence a mere home owner with the inability to paint her home to life imprisonment.
On the other side of town 3 innocent lives were needlessly lost in a tenement fire this weekend. The landlord has a long and troubled history of housing code violations. But said landlord still has rental licenses granted by our not so fair city. What's wrong with this picture?
hidin' out in Hawthorne,
Dyna Sluyter
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