Crime is up, and the city continues the reduction in police force; yeah, that's the ticket! Faith Zuckweiler
Dyna Sluyter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:The backgrounder article in today's Strib well chronicles the perp who murdered 3 Northside citizens last weekend. Like many of the latest murders in this once fair city, this heinious act took the lives of 3 innocent members of a family that had anchored their now troubled Hawthorne neighborhood for over 40 years. The story chronicles this perps whole sordid violent criminal history, but most telling is the last years. This perp was convicted of a violent burglary last October, but despite having a history of violent crime and having failed drug treatment the judge gave him a one year sentence rather than the standard 4 years requested by our county attorney. Take note here, as to who's really "soft on crime"- that county attorney is a Democrat, The judge who gave this light sentence was appointed by an independence party governor. In fact, the many folks that are quite justifiably upset about the short sentences given felons in Minneapols might want to note that a DFL governor hasn't appointed a judge since 1991, and most of the judges appointed to the Hennipen county bench are Republican or Independence party governor's appointees. Having been given said light sentence, as is customary to felons sentenced to a year or less, our perp was last october remanded to the custody of our Republican Hennipen county sheriff. Now remember our Republican county commisioner, Mr. Stanglein, who in fact badly represents the very district where these multiple murders were committed? Was it not this Republican county commissioner that said there were a couple hundred beds available at our county workhouse? And was not this the sheriff that said he could handle more prisoners? Well that Republican sheriff who runs that workhouse under the direction of a Republican controlled county board turned loose this perp that murdered 3 of my neighbors after serving but half of a too short one year term for a repeat violent felony. Now folks may by now have noted a trend here- the Republicans are now the party that is "soft on crime", to use their terminology of a couple decades back.Heck, if the Democrats were as tasteless as the Republicans they could even do plenty of "Willy Horton" style attack ads. The trend continues all the way to the presidency- while unelected president Bush has wasted our tax dollars on pork barrel purchases of expensive toys- radios too high tech to work properly, armored cars, etc., Clinton gave us "Clinton Cops" and John Kerry in similar manner promises to put more law enforcement feet on the street. So if you want to put the perps in prison and make our streets safe again, vote DFL! hanging on in Hawthorne, Dyna Sluyter REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today! REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
