Minnesota

A traffic cop actually caught someone driving the car, but the police refused to pursue it because they claimed they couldn't "prove" it wasn't borrowed, when my aunt had already reported it stolen. They couldn't bother to enforce grand theft, but let a black man drive with a broken tail light or pass a bad $20 bill, then his life is over. They choose to prioritize hassling people of color over enforcing major crimes.

In the more recent case, the car wound up in an impound lot. Of course they never bothered to call my cousin, the car's owner, to even alert her that it was there. She was checking herself on a daily basis, so she got her car back, but she never heard anything from the police. You say they are now too busy for that, but what about a few years ago when my aunt's car was stolen?

I recently saw a cop put on his sirens and lights in the target parking lot. There was no altercation is progress. I didn't see anything happening except one person who may have been driving the wrong way in the parking lot. That they have time for, but not grand theft or car jacking. It's about priorities.

If police refuse to answer calls about businesses and homes broken into, what is the point of having them? There are neighborhoods where the police refuse to come, like my neighborhood of Seward, which is hardly a bad area, and Uptown. The Somali businesses along Franklin have reported that repeated calls to police have gone unanswered. Notice that areas where there were protests are ignored. They are punishing us for the burning of the Third precinct, when it was a Boogaloo boy who did it. Crime has risen because criminals know they can act with impunity. There isn't a natural rise of that level in one year. Meanwhile, we have a mayor who refuses to compel the police to act. And for some reason I can't fathom, people voted him back in office.