Carjacking crisis: Minneapolis vs. St. Paul

The heart of the case for Operation Metro Surge 'reparations' has always rested upon the premise that people were too afraid to leave their homes because of ICE's presence in Minneapolis. Further, Jacob Frey, Minneapolis's mayor, insisted in national TV interviews, that the Surge was making Minneapolis less safe, not more safe. I don't buy that because Minneapolis isn't that safe to start with. This article provides the proof, saying "According to the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office, St. Paul had 196 auto thefts in January and February compared to 1,054 in Minneapolis.

That's a more than 5.25:1 dicrepancy between Minneapolis and St. Paul. The article then reported "Police were called to a report of a shooting on West Lake Street near Grand Avenue on Friday just before midnight. Three injured parties were found on site, and a fourth later showed up at an area hospital, police later said in media statements. One of the teens was 16, the other three were 17. All were reported to have non-life-threatening injuries. Somali media Tusmo Times reported that all four injured teens were Somali."

CAIR-MN cried 'injustice' when it was revealed that the vast majority of the Medicaid and Feeding Our Future fraudsters were Somalis. "Retired Minnesota State Patrol Lt. John Nagel threw water on that theory." Lt. Nagel "told Fox News Digital, 'It’s a deterrence problem.'"

National media Fox News Digital recently reported on Minneapolis’ auto theft problem and noted that Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara recently suggested that ICE’s Metro Surge immigration operation was a contributing factor in the rise in auto thefts in the city. O’Hara was quoted as saying, “officers and investigators were consistently pulled from their normal assigned duties." Retired Minnesota State Patrol Lt. John Nagel threw water on that theory and told Fox News Digital, "It’s a deterrence problem."

"As a 30-year law enforcement veteran, I can tell you this: auto theft goes down when city leaders make it a priority and criminals know there will be consequences. We’ve seen that in St. Paul, where focused enforcement drove car theft down sharply, while Minneapolis is back over 1,000 auto thefts in just the first two months of this year," Nagel said. Nagel went on to blame Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Gov. Tim Walz for undermining deterrence and tolerating a revolving door system for repeat offenders, especially for juveniles, he said.

Deterrance problems didn't start with Operation Metro Surge. If anything, Operation Metro Surge increased deterrance as a result of increased law enforcement presence.

Minneapolis's problem is understaffing, a lightweight prosecutor (Mary Moriarty) who opposes deterrance and politicians who undermine the MPD. Minneapolis doesn't have a crime problem as much as it has an activist politician problem.

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