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Monday, March 12, 2007

Pocket of Crime

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posted by Bob at Monday, March 12, 2007

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Blogger Bob said...

Submitted by Learned From Experience (not verified) on Fri, 03/09/2007 - 9:30pm.

Yup. Bad people doing bad things. As the number of uneducated, unemployed, futureless, angry young people goes up, crime goes up. It's always been that way (ask any criminologist). FWIW, it's that way in England as well as the US.

The solution, if there is one has to be to create a soundly-based belief in a real future. But that can't be done with the smoke and mirrors of government programs that hire the middle class and deliver nothing to the men on the bottom. A future is something most YBM's on the northside don't believe they have. They're just waiting for their turn in prison.

"Police officials say the violence tends to happen among young men in their late teens and early to mid-20s. In some cases, it is random. But in many cases, it is among people who know one another, or between gangs, as a way to settle disputes [and gain the respect life denies them]."



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Maybe it's in the water?
Submitted by Despondent (not verified) on Mon, 03/12/2007 - 10:23am.
As a libertarian I beginning to think that I have unjustly blamed 'Minneapolis' and it's lack of leadership for many of the problems/issues in this Metro area.

After reading various posts in these Buzz blogs, I see two possible conclsions: The only people who read the Red Star are ultraliberal socialists, or most of the population of Mpls thinks this way. If it is the latter, there is no hope.

To offer up a few examples:

On crime:

As the number of uneducated, unemployed, futureless, angry young people goes up, crime goes up.

A future is something most YBM's on the northside don't believe they have. They're just waiting for their turn in prison.

Uneducated? Currently Mpls spends nearly $11,000 yr/pupil. Yet these people don't take advantage of it?

Waiting for their turn? Don't you have to commit an act first? I know, it's guns! Guns are bad, let's sue the gun makers.

On Education:

It seems to me that the school district is starting to look at our losing students on the North side as a good thing. I have trouble supporting a plan that takes more money and schools away from the areas that could use support the most.

They aren't taking the schools away - there is excess capacity! The very YBM's that refuse to go to school and learn, are contributing to this problem.

By closing more schools we are either going to continue to lose our students to other districts or they

Familes with children continue to leave Minneapolis because they don't want their kids in the Mpls Schools. Do you understand that it's the failed policies of the Mpls Schools. Leaving the schools open will not fix anything.

On Housing:

2717 Penn Avenue North sentenced to death

Whenever I go through a community filled with old houses, I always think about the families that lived in those houses through the years. Who were they? What did the children grow up to become?

Where is the pragmatic, critical, thinking?

To destroy these buildings - even the humbler ones - is to lose part of what makes cities so special. While the immediate property value may not justify fixing the place up, its role as part of a unique, historical urban landscape does justify treating it as "of historical value"

Life is about living, not about saving crap houses, just because they're old. If middle class people want and expect decent, 21st century housing, not some shack that Sven & Ole threw together. We are not going to attract middle class families to Mpls unless we have decent, up to date housing.

The banks screwed up. They made bad loans. Its not responsible to take the neighborhood with them as the entire subprime mortgage market crashes. 2717 Penn will be replaced with a boring nasty prefab modular home. It is sad to see so many good houses falling apart in North Minneapolis

It's those bad banks again. They are not good houses, they are falling apart houses.

Common threads that runs through most every post are:

things should stay the same, even though the rest of the people are voting with their feet and leaving Mpls

Someone else is responsible for whatever problem
Government should enact a program to fix what ever is wrong
The one thing I have not heard mention or implied is "personal responsibility".

I've never seen such backwards, ilogical thought in my life. I'm flabbergasted, is this the type of thought that fills the mind of the average Minneapolis resident? I hope not.

7:46 PM  
Blogger Bob said...

This is the link to this story.

http://www.buzz.mn/?q=node/891

Public education is good at identifying at risk youth, they are not very effective at assisting a troubled youth with the tools nessary to live a good life.

7:53 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why would they want to take advantage of the schools when Samuels wants to burn them down?

9:22 PM  

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