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So on Monday, I get a text from my property management company saying that they've retained an outside security company to address the numerous complaints about loitering and drug sales in the neighborhood.
'Beginning today, you will see these security personnel around the properties and in the neighborhood, goes on and on about procedures.'
Okay. Today's Wednesday. It's two days later, I get an email from my property management, and they said,
'We're disappointed to share that the security company that was hired has pulled out of the neighborhood. After a day and a half of doing recon and observing activity in the neighborhood, they decided the problems with crime exceed their resources to control. We will continue to work with organizations and neighborhood and explore other options to improve public safety and so on.'
Live look at the security contractors speeding out of Minneapolis:
HOWEVER, a man named Richard is very upset in the comment section about the insinuation that Minneapolis is a wretched hive of scum and villainy. 👇
Okay, Richard. Let's look at the stats.
Earlier this year, the city claimed to have seen a major drop in crime. From the mayor:
This conveniently only looked at January/February of 2024 and 2025.
Let's back up and look at murder data so Richard has better context.
During the last entire full year of data (2024), there was an increase in murders (76 in 2024 and 72 in 2023). A decade ago in 2015, Minneapolis had 49 murders.
The past two decades of data show murders are definitely up:
However, the city's population has grown since then, so per capita, the city has actually seen a higher homicide rate in the '90s:
What's different now is that Minneapolis has continued to stay far above the national average, even as the national average has continued to decline:
In addition, three other elements are different from the spike the city saw 30 years ago.
First of all, crime is perceived to have spread into more affluent areas, including places downtown where people used to feel safe. Consider the 2024 murder of James Quigley, a Gulf War Navy veteran. Here is his sister talking about his death:
Break-ins are happening "all over the place," according to local media in July. Residents are saying they are planning to move after decades in the city:
Second, the city has less police capacity and less trust in either the police themselves, or in the police's ability to respond.
After the "fiery but peaceful" riots in 2020, Minneapolis PD saw an exodus of officers who didn't want to be charged with murder for doing their jobs, falling to around 75% of needed capacity.
This massive reduction in staff was combined with woke policies that favored releasing criminals and preventing police from stopping them lest they be labeled racist.
Third, the city is releasing criminals instead of charging them and taking them to court to get a conviction. This can artificially deflate official crime numbers. Consider:
Sure, someone robbed a house, but if they don't get charged, was a crime ever committed?
The city doesn't want to look bad, so it has the incentive to fudge the numbers downward. Meanwhile, right-wing media has the incentive to make the numbers seem larger to prove that the Democrat-run city is spiraling out of control.
And yet, independent of the narratives, there was literally a double murder just last night:
If you want a good "canary in the coal mines" for how bad crime actually is in your city, look at how locals and businesses (including security companies) are "voting with their feet."
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