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Re:Edina Minnesota latest suburb to roll out homeowner surve... by cphelps01 on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @09:24AM (#29891727)
Organized or not (and I've heard from a police officer it is mainly 13-19 year-old idiots), one cannot look at https://twitter.com/CrimeWatchMpls for more than a couple of nights to see how bad the problem is in the Twin Cities.
Re:Edina Minnesota latest suburb to roll out homeowner surve... by bequanna on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @10:56AM (#29893038)
> mainly 13-19 year-old idiots

Maybe they are "idiots", but that age group still commits their fair share of violent crimes: https://www.statista.com/statistics/424130/us-violent-crime-...

Re:Edina Minnesota latest suburb to roll out homeowner surve... by codyogden on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @10:04AM (#29892235)
As a heads up, all of the "Crime Watch" for Minnesota and Minneapolis are run by a verifiable racist. Please ensure you review that source with awareness of the bias that is implicitly in every update from them.

Source: https://minnesotareformer.com/2021/01/25/data-show-racial-bi...

Re:Edina Minnesota latest suburb to roll out homeowner surve... by bequanna on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @11:15AM (#29893353)
Why are you making this about race?

Even if that account doesn't have perfect coverage of all crimes committed, the incidents that are being report by that account DID actually happen, right?

As an aside, I've been very happy to see the strategy of calling everything you don't like "racism" lose its effectiveness over the past year.

Re:Edina Minnesota latest suburb to roll out homeowner surve... by codyogden on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @11:31AM (#29893656)
> Why are you making this about race?

I'm not making this about race. I'm making this about whether it's okay to accept the views of racists. Completely different.

> Even if that account doesn't have perfect coverage of all crimes committed, the incidents that are being report by that account DID actually happen, right?

Nope. Per the source, not all of them happened, and the accuracy of the reports is questionable.

Re:Edina Minnesota latest suburb to roll out homeowner surve... by bequanna on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @01:24PM (#29895482)
Well, I guess I (and many others) will continue to rely on a source that pretty accurately represents reality vs completely discounting it because someone doesn’t like hearing uncomfortable truth, hand waves and screeches “racism”.

The source you posted is not well researched, balanced, and does not at all appear credible. Indeed, if you would like a glimpse into the author's political world view, you can check the below link to his podcast where he states: "...actual Nazis are increasingly hard to differentiate from mainstream conservatives." So...yea.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unbalanced-mn-logan-ca...

Re:Edina Minnesota latest suburb to roll out homeowner surve... by the_doctah on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @10:18AM (#29892430)
If it's verifiable then why didn't you provide the evidence?
Re:Edina Minnesota latest suburb to roll out homeowner surve... by codyogden on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @10:53AM (#29892978)
Re:Edina Minnesota latest suburb to roll out homeowner surve... by the_doctah on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @11:30AM (#29893630)
This reads like a bunch of high school drama between the source you posted and the crime watch page.

It also provides extremely weak support for your racism claim.

Re:Edina Minnesota latest suburb to roll out homeowner surve... by henriquez on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @10:19AM (#29892454)
Any facts that come from a racist or otherwise problematic source are deemed “hate facts” and must be discarded.