On Thursday, July 8, 2004, at 07:12 PM, Gregory Reinhardt wrote:
Its not Murderapolis and the latest firearm death was not a
murder but a negligent act of manslaughter.
When I wrote that post the media was still treating it as a murder.
The end result is the same.
As pointed out in by
Greetings all,
I've worked on several drafts of this message without success. I did,
however, want to inform the list of an upcoming Street Fest in the
warehouse district to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the Minneapolis
Teamsters Strike. In trying to do that I found that I'd end up
Dyna Sluyter correctly states: .illustrated by the way crime
statistics are often sliced diced by public officials to make it appear
that there latest crime control scheme is working.
Vicky here: We need to include medical emergencies with the published
crime statistics. Last August one
If gas becomes very expensive, it won't happen overnight. Hybrids and
cars that use alternative fuels or even electric power will replace
those that burn mostly gas (already partially ethanol here) as the price
of gas goes up.
MNDOT and other DOTs are worried about hybrids cutting into the
Dear Northeast Minneapolis friends and neighbors,
Many of you know Tom Taylor, who has been involved in neighborhood
issues in Northeast for many years. Tom is on the board of the Sheridan
Neighborhood Organization, has been a strong supporter of the Eastside
Food Co-op, community gardens, our
Minneapolis should be writing a big thank you note.
A mystery donor gave Minneapolis an extra $100 million in 2002. It's in the
category of revenue called Intergovernmental Revenues. See Table 4:
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/financial-reports/cafr2003/docs/Stats.pdf
We need to know who to
Vicky here:
Apparently a person must die to be counted as a crime these days. My
understanding is that an incident is considered medical if an ambulance is
called. A police report is not recorded unless the VICTIM requests one.
Me:
We've seen such understandings be faulty in the past.
There's no mystery to crime figures or even offense addresses. All is available to
the public. With the exception of the Mayor and CCM's offices, no one on the list
has called me or my office directly for information. Call me at 612-673-3587. Or use
the city's web site. Here is the link to
The police department reports crimes even if the victim is cooperative or not. If a
person shows up at a medical facility with a gunshot wound they (the hospital) call
the police department. MPD routinely goes to HCMC or North, because a shooting victim
arrives and the hospital calls, not
Statistics are cold comfort to those who face violence, in some form or
another everyday.
In the past few months:
2 Northside neighbors have been attacked and beaten up by drug dealers
A brick was thrown in a neighbor's car
I have been threatened with a gun
My fiancee has been shot with a pellet
July 7 Park Board commissioners meeting highlights
PART ONE OF TWO PARTS DUE TO MAILING LIST SIZE RESTRICTIONS
This meeting was video taped for cable TV as a test run.
At 5:00pm, the Administration Finance Committee began its meeting with
only 3 of its members present, chairwoman Marie Hauser,
July 7 Park Board commissioners meeting highlights
PART TWO OF TWO DUE TO MAILING LIST SIZE RESTRICTIONS
This meeting was video taped for cable TV as a test run.
At 7PM, Bob Fine calls the Planning Committee to order. There were 3
large Study/Report Items on the agenda.
1. EPA report on the
Since it is not Murderapolis should we instead call it Rapeapolis or
some other marketing title to denote the lucrative drug sales opportunities?
Minneapolis had the distinction of having one of the highest rape rates for
major cities in the United States for several years. Of course that is
The current feud over shuffling teachers and layoffs and school
closings appears to be an attempt to make an end run on the contract. The
primary reason for contracts is to clearly state the expectations of
performance and payment and to resolve differences that arise. Even when
both sides in
Gregory Reinhardt wrote:
There's no mystery to crime figures or even offense addresses. All is available to the
public. With the exception of the Mayor and CCM's offices, no one on the list has
called me or my office directly for information. Call me at 612-673-3587. Or use the
city's web site.
First-off, we all know (or should know) that statistics can and are used to
support many different positions. Both from the far-right and from the
far-left, on any given issue.
I'd feel much better about using statistical crime stats to analize the
quality of life we're experiencing in our
Apparently a person must die to be counted as a crime these days.
My understanding is that an incident is considered medical if an
ambulance is
called. A police report is not recorded unless the VICTIM requests one.
. . .
Vicky Heller
North Oaks and Cedar-Riverside
The first sentence here
Dennis Plante wrote:
I'd feel much better about using statistical crime stats to analyze
the quality of life we're experiencing in our city, if there were some
bigger plan in place that would allow us (as citizens) to determine
whether or elected officials and paid officials were actually doing
Hi,
Just wanted to add a few things to the list about the MPRB meeting that
Chris missed. First of all only 4 of 9 commissioners were present at
5:00 which was unusual but what was fun was that Marie Hauser could not
convene her committee because of lack of quorum so President Olson made a
In my opinion it is important for teacher who are being realigned out of
their jobs to raise the issue about excessive layoffs, i.e., 210 jobs cut, 608
teachers laid off. Doing so will help to broaden your base of support among
teachers and pro-labor community members, and because the excessive
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