Your "practical advice" about "What areas to avoid" is interesting. BUT to interject a little reality, what about the women who have to live in those areas? Should we just avoid the reality that they face in "OUR" City? The City already does that, it "Avoids" the impacted neighborhoods and uses them as containment zones. We should be ashamed to "Avoid" and discriminate against any area of Minneapolis.
We should measure the quality of our City by the way we provide for our children, our women, our elders, and our handicapped. It should be the intent of Minneapolis to build community by laying a foundation on such principles and to organize its structure to guarantee the safety and happiness of our most vulnerable.
Do we want to live in a "Quality City" or not? We can't have one by avoiding any where in the City. We must strive to make every area of Minneapolis safe for our most vulnerable. And to be a truly "Quality City" we should care about the people sleeping outside tonight. Under a bridge if they are lucky. We simply do not have any people or places in this City that we should "Avoid".
Jim Graham, Ventura Village, Phillips Community, and the Sixth Ward.
"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."
- Toe
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