Police defunding depended on the myth that police would be better off replaced with something else. The alternatives included everything from social workers to ‘violence interrupters’ which in practice meant members of community groups trained to defuse conflicts. As you can imagine, this never worked very well.
In a Newsweek editorial, I wrote that “research has shown no meaningful evidence that violence interruption actually works. And if stopping gang members from killing each other over money and turf were as easy as having a conversation with them about their life choices, why would have anyone ever need the police to begin with?”
Now over in Minneapolis, the City of Love, a “violence interrupter” is under arrest.
Two members of a Minneapolis violence prevention organization run by Rev. Jerry McAfee are now facing weapons charges after one of them was shot last week.
Last week, Rev. Jerry McAfee told FOX 9 one of his workers for 21 Days of Peace was shot in the area of 36th Avenue and Penn Avenue following a barbecue put on by the group.
Police say dozens of shots were fired during the exchange last Monday night. Speaking with police, officers say McReynolds admitted he only fired in the general direction of the gunmen who fired the initial shots, since he couldn’t see them. He also admitted he was trained to stop firing once the other person stops but kept going because “adrenaline was going.”
Police told FOX 9 one shot fired during the exchange went through a child’s bedroom – though no one was hurt by the stray bullet.
As part of the changes, city leaders said they would drop a proposal to send $640,000 to Salem Inc. – an organization run by Rev. Jerry McAfee. The decision followed scrutiny from council members after McAfee disrupted a council meeting last month and was later accused by council members of making threats.
The violence interrupters need violence interrupters. But mostly, Minneapolis needs a functional police force and an end to police defunding nonsense. Violence interrupters are not a substitute for police. Sending in civilians to try and stop shootings is senseless. If they’re unarmed they’re helpless and if they’re armed, they’re not trained to law enforcement standards.
But if you really want to interrupt the violence, you need to start locking up criminals.
A dose of Realty to jolt awake all those DEFUND THE POLICE. Idiots
Until a defund police demoniac is violently attacked and police don’t show for 90 minutes because their department was defunded is there any hope of defund 911 first responders nitwits may begin to see the demonic ignorance of their folly to defund enforcement!
That’s already happened multiple times.
The schadenfreude is strong every time.
Well, trying to put in a new governmental system is bound to be a disaster. These old governmental systems were like large, complex, kludgy computer programs that were never working right, but just patched up here and there. The 2 cases I’m most familiar with are the British Navy and the French railway system during the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. The British Navy was patched up repeatedly for centuries, never completely done right, but somehow barely chugging along, disastrously close to failure. An outsider political leader tried to speed up the French railway system but disrupted the whole system to speed up some particular shipments. These governmental systems under political pressures that evolve over many decades with ad hoc patches to particular problems that arise are hopelessly complex. Like Social Security, which Musk doesn’t understand. He needs to find someone he can trust who is familiar with the system. 80 million voters depend on the system, giving the Democrats their best chance during the next elections.
Yes, the D-Bags need to be called out and revealed as the shamelessly stupid liars they are for claiming 365 days a year that Trump, MAGA and the RINOs want to cut/end Social Security and Medicare. The D-Bags are the ones who constantly try to tax both programs and are bankrupting them through fraudulent payments and services, and gross mismanagement. The executives in those agencies do NOT deserve to be paid more than the President and most of them should be fired and their job positions abolished.
How even D-Bag voters can be stupid enough to buy into that shit I don’t know but they sure do.
The same goes for the VA the D-Bags gutted and nearly destroyed but was restored by President Trump.
The President needs to bombard and overwhelm the media with the truth about all three of those agencies until the D-Bags can’t even mention the subject without being crucified.
Yeah, the nightmare of dealing with those bureaucracies is unimaginable. It took me 6 months to get my phone number straightened out 10 years ago. I’m worried about the younger folks who are about to become eligible, I don’t see how they can get through the system.
The program wasn’t meant to reduce crime, it’s purpose was to protect criminals from police and launder city funds though democrat allied people and groups.
Bingo! Stinking Democ-rat politicians are the problem.
When are we going to accept the fact that blacks are much more violent than the rest of the population. The justice system has to step up and deal with them. More punitive incarceration, hard work chain gangs for one for all bad actors.
When I was a teenager, I was the only white guy on my all-black baseball team 🙂
They were all better athletes than I was, stronger, faster, better hitters, better pitchers, better fighters.
We had one pitcher named Horace, that the kids called “Horse”, that had such a fastball that I was scared to face him, I don’t think I ever got my bat around before the ball was past me 🙂
I gave up baseball the next year 🙂
In my mind I still see Horace’s pitches as having smoke on them as they steamed by me 🙂
You need to dis your racism and research statistics = and BTW most demonKKKrats in CONgrASS are white! Not even pale skinned semitic Hebrews – but real Caucasians – not Asians With Cocks
I reckon you must be one of those Antisemites? Or worse, a self loathing Jew.
good point, Muggs.
To the chagrin of leftist Truthophobes, I continue to flaunt the t-shirts that state “Breathe Easy: Don’t Break the Law” and “Respect Cops: Don’t Attack Them.”
I wish the expression “a conservative is a former liberal who got mugged by reality” meant more liberals were willing to concede the predictable negative consequence of demonizing the police. Too often, as with their dumb education ideas, their response is to instead support doing more of what is not working.
There is self defense and shooting in the general direction of where the dude heard the shots coming from.
You’re in a neighborhood not an open field. Statistics are there but the main sleaze media doesn’t report on it. But we can google the stats on how many gun shot accidents happen during hunting season?
The Salem Inc. Rev. Jerry McAfee needs to send his gun toting troops to intense training before returning fire.
You have to be able to see the shooter not shoot in the general direction of where you think the sounds of gun fire came from.
This same chickenshit activist judge made sure any Trump supporter protesting on Jan 6th got the book thrown at ’em . . . with the glaring exception of one person – Ray Epps.
Count that as another example that proves Jan 6th was a set-up.
What I wish to say just seems so cliche sounding, but I had not heard many other things as insane as the “Defund the police.” idea. I couldn’t believe it.
The harassment and disparagement of the police these last several years, seems to have had its effect. Where I live their visibility diminished significantly. I don’t like it.