Stranger forcible rape is one of the most heinous of all crimes for human kind. It robs women of the security to act as free human beings. It robs a woman of a normal fear free life for years afterward, and it robs all her acquaintances and women family members of that same security. It is not sexual it is for power! The act of men who knowingly deprive women of that power for their own sick needs. It is a predatory crime that should be taken with the utmost seriousness, and the rapist hunted down like a rabid dog and treated just as a rabid dog would be treated. I am strongly opposed to the death penalty imposed by the State, but I am certainly in favor of women being armed and taking care of such predators as if they were being attacked by a mad dog.
If men were forcibly raped by strangers on our streets I can assure you that we would take it much more seriously. If women from Kenwood or along the creek were raped at a rate of 25 per year I can also assure you we would not be talking about needing extra cops; we would have 500 more cops and the National guard called out. But the women from neighborhoods like Ventura Village, Phillips, Hawthorne and Jordan just are not viewed by politicians as being as important as those from the "Better" neighborhoods. Women from those "Better" neighborhoods, please show you care about this crime against womanhood and DEMAND that the uncaring politicians do some thing to stem this increase immediately.
During the time that Minneapolis was last "Murderapolis" the little known secret that politicians did not want you to know about was that it lead the nation in rate of forcible rape. They should have called it Rapeapolis. That rape is a symptom of the coming firestorm of crime we will probably face. The real question is if the present Mayor and Council will take their heads from the sand before the fire is out of control and Minneapolis is again "Murderapolis" and covered up "Rapeapolis".
Police officers on the street say that the Third Precinct, and other precincts to a smaller extent, is being stripped to save the Mayor and Chiefs face over North. We probably will have the better-off neighborhoods bear a little more burden until more officers are hired. If Mayor Rybak and the Council does not take the new trend more seriously, however, look for a new Mayor McLaughlin to have to address an even higher murder and rape rate after the voters decide they are tired of the long hot summer ahead.
This increasing crime wave is probably as great a danger to the present administration as it is to poor neighborhoods. A disaster for both. Hopefully, the politicians will listen before the storm, not after we have real war zones again. Perhaps the Impacted neighborhoods should make plans to call the State for the National Guard in. Call them because the Minneapolis officials are unable, and do not have the financial and "gut" resources, to address Minneapolis problems. It is not too late for RT, but he better get cracking.
The increase in rape is just a symptom of the wave that is coming. The present Mayor and Council better get to the higher ground provided by better (and more) policing, or they may politically drown in a tsunami of voter outrage. That outrage might explain why some of RT's most ardent former supporters were supporting McLaughlin today at the Sixth Ward Convention. McLaughlin clearly lead by two to one even though RT's organization is a much better tuned machine and most people had been called ten times by RT's campaign in the last couple of weeks. RT should know better it is the same wave he rode to victory four years ago. Voters will be looking at what he has DONE this election, not what he promises to do.
How did the Second Ward shake out for delegates? Who seemed to have the most, RT or Peter McLaughlin? Has anyone heard? A County Commissioner attending the Sixth said she thought McLaughlin was the clear leader, but I have not heard from anyone else.
Jim Graham, Ventura Village, Sixth Ward, Third Precinct
"It is always an utter folly to underestimate the lure and attraction of a great evil. The whitened bones of their victims litter the highways and byways of mankind's history. Stopped only by the few willing to pay the ultimate price and make a stand."<
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