RE: [Mpls] A Story of Courage and Service

2005-03-08 Thread V.L. Freeman
Hello List! BL. States: We head into yet another summer with no plans to address crime in impacted inner-city neighborhoods and no talk of developing a concerted plan to address it except to demand we add more police to arrest more people who won't go to Jail or treatment. VF: There is no

Re: [Mpls] A Story of Courage and Service

2005-03-08 Thread Dorothy Titus
For Vanessa, No, I'm not running for office. I was not trying to single her out as someone with super human abilities. I was filled with admiration for her and how she is handling this tragedy, and I wanted both to put a human face on the tragedy and, hopefully, light a bit of a fire under

[Mpls] A Story of Courage and Service

2005-03-06 Thread Dorothy Titus
In so much of the recent communications about the double homicide here in North Minneapolis (it happened just a block-and-a-half up the street from my house), I have read the hue and cry about what the city can and cannot do and what the city should and should not do and the questions about