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Re:Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disba... by newen on Monday June 08, 2020 @03:16AM (#23454320)
> He led the city’s high-profile pivot to community policing from 2013 until last year and oversaw what turned out to be a steep decline in crime. Homicides in Camden reached 67 in 2012; the figure for 2019 was 25.

That's significant improvement. Waiting until you can "solve crime" seems unproductive.

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Re:Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disba... by CivBase on Monday June 08, 2020 @09:45AM (#23456411)
There is a pretty big difference between "solving crime" and reducing crime rate to a more typical level.
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Re:Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disba... by newen on Monday June 08, 2020 @02:25PM (#23459231)
The city had already started out with an extremely high crime rate and it dropped significantly after the PD was disbanded and remade. It hasn't gotten to typical levels but I don't think people are expecting magical results here. People want a useful police that treat them with respect and that doesn't use any opportunity to terrorize them and murder them. You know, like the police in every other first world country.
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