Minneapolis Learns a Hard Lesson on Defunding The Police and Public Safety

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Minneapolis MN, the below graphic shows how the issue of Defunding The Police has come full circle in Minneapolis, the city where the movement began as riots erupted in the wake of George Floyd’s killing in 2020. Since then, the story has followed a sad, if predictable, pattern. The next chapter may well be written in November when the midterm electorate will have a say on the direction of law enforcement.

If you remember the bad old days of New York City , what I often refer to as the “Bronx is Burning ” era back when Ed Koch was first running for mayor, Ed Koch used to tell of the time he told some senior citizens about a judge he knew who’d been mugged The judge, said Koch, told a group that “this mugging will not influence any of my decisions from the bench” — whereupon a woman yelled, “Mug him again!” Eventually they will figure it out.

Once again mugged by reality.

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