Hello List!
How many times can a community be blamed for it's problems. Blame lays across the board. From communities to the higher levels of government. The city needs to follow it's own words when it tells community block clubs, in the affected neighborhoods of Jordan, Hawthorne, and Near North, to be consistent. "You have to continue with your efforts, once crime has decreased, to keep crime at a minimum." I think the city needs to be consistent and keep up their efforts to keep crime to a minimum as well. Meaning: Just because crime is down does not means it will stay down.
I and others on this list have posted for the past few years of some possible help in communities where crime is high. I understand that politicians need to do what's right for all communities, however, people must understand that what's not fixed here will end up there. To those of us afflicted in these troubled neighborhoods, lightrail does not mean a thing, if I do not have a job to ride it to. Job means nothing it I do not have training and training is not there because the funding been's cut.
When I go into homes in my job, mostly in the troubles areas, there are multiple issues. Not just hopelessness, but parenting issues, cd issues, job issues, lack of education issues, domestic violence issues, and a complete lack of trust. I don't blame the families, because most of the time it is not their bad. I believe in what Dottie said in an earlier post: "You see, what is most needed in North Minneapolis is a whole lot of caring and a strong willingness to help people lift themselves up out of poverty and out of crime." To do that would be to send positive programming to include: companies willing to train and hire, workforce center for job seeking skils, African American ethnicity agencies such as A.A.F.S. African American Family Services to work with famlies, willing faith based organizations, conflict mediators, MPS, Mpls Park and Rec, along with MPD into troubled neighborhoods, sending the help and support that will needed so many can lift themselves out of hopelessness and poverty. However, this requires funding and consistency.
I spoke about a "Dream Team" many months ago and Barbara Lickness advised me and this list that there was one, and it's called CRIMINAL JUSTICE COORDINATING COMMITTEE. The above peope would be that dream team.
Vanessa Freeman Hawthorne.
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