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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Deputy Minneapolis Police Chief Amelia Huffman brought together Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) leadership and community partners to discuss the City’s response to violent crime.
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A
A
We
welcome
each
and
every
one
of
you
have
come
today
to
partake
in
listening
and
understanding
what
the
vision
is
for
this
great
city,
I'm
honored
to
be
here
today,
and
I'm
also
honored
to
congratulate
mayor
frye
on
his
reelection.
It's
at
this
time.
It's
my
pleasure
to
present
to
you
our
mayor,
the
honorable,
jacob
fry
everybody.
B
A
huge
thank
you
to
bishop
howell,
who
has
been
so
incessantly
and
consistently
committed
to
the
north
side
here
and
to
our
entire
city.
I
greatly
appreciate
your
partnership
bishop
and
to
shiloh
temple
as
well.
It's
certainly
good
to
be
back
here
so
as
a
community
minneapolis
has
endured
more
trauma
specifically
here
on
the
north
side
in
these
last
couple
of
years
than
we
have
in
quite
some
time
and
in
fact
perhaps
many
generations,
the
people
who
we
represent.
B
B
As
you
all
know,
we've
experienced
quite
a
bit
of
attrition
over
these
last
couple
years
and
it's
on
all
of
us
to
get
the
right
community
oriented
officers
into
the
department
and
to
retain
the
excellent
officers
that
we
have
to
make
sure
that
they
are
able
to
do
their
jobs
that
they
are
charged
with,
of
keeping
people
safe
and
protecting
and
serving
in
our
communities.
So
let's
take
each
one
of
these
pieces
in
turn.
B
B
We
need
to
stop
the
rhetoric
and
move
forward
with
the
action
steps
as
to
how
we
move
forward.
We
need
to
make
sure
that
young
people
have
safe
places
to
recreate
that
they
have
things
to
do
coming
out
of
a
global
pandemic
that
they're
getting
back
to
operating
and
functioning
in
a
society
where
they
feel
comfortable
and
safe
and
simultaneously
we
need
to
protect
both
them
and
the
city
from
some
of
the
violent
acts
that
have
been
perpetrated
over
the
last
several
months.
B
This
has
got
to
be
a
comprehensive
and
multifaceted
approach,
and
nobody
here
is
suggesting
that
we're
just
going
to
arrest
our
way
out
of
this
problem.
But
if
we
fail,
if
we
fail
to
couple
compassion
with
accountability-
and
that
goes
from
the
courts
to
the
prosecutors,
to
police,
to
politicians,
we
are
resigning
ourselves
to
failed
outcomes.
B
Finally,
we
need
to
move
full
speed
ahead
with
recruiting
and
building
back
our
department.
As
has
been
mentioned,
we
have
lost
around
one
third
of
our
department
to
attrition
over
these
last
couple
of
years.
Now
we
must
be
doing
everything
we
possibly
can
to
build
back
right.
We
need
to
be
incentivizing.
The
best
possible
officers
that
are
community
oriented
that
are
procedural
justice
minded
that
want
to
protect
and
serve
to
enter
this
department.
B
We
need
to
be
retaining
and
attracting
the
best
and
the
brightest
within
to
the
minneapolis
police
department,
and
I
will
say
it
bluntly-
and
this
is
something
that
I
think
mayors
and
chiefs
around
the
country
are
recognizing-
is
that
police
officers
need
to
get
paid
more
and
fired
more.
They
need
to
get
paid
more
so
that
we
are
in
fact
incentivizing
the
best
possible
talent
to
come
to
our
police
department
and
stay
here.
B
We
want
people
that
want
to
be
the
change
in
the
minneapolis
police
department
to
sign
up,
and
I
will
in
fact
take
this
opportunity
to
say
that
if
you
want
to
be
the
change
in
your
community,
if
you
want
to
protect
and
serve
if
you
want
to
have
deep-seated
relationships
in
minneapolis
that
allow
you
to
stop
some
of
these
violent
acts
before
they
start
and
make
sure
that
people
in
your
community
and
our
community
feel
safe.
Joining
the
minneapolis
police
department
is
a
great
step.
B
We
also
need
to
make
sure
that
we
recognize
that
this
this
work
is
going
to
take
all
of
us.
It's
going
to
take
everything
in
in
our
power
right
now
to
keep
minneapolis
residents
safe,
and
this
is
going
to
take
a
collective
effort.
So
those
are
some
of
the
three
overarching
pieces
that
we
want
to
be
focusing
on
right
now
and
with
that,
I
will
turn
it
over
to
our
deputy
chief
huffman
to
to
get
into
a
little
bit
more
of
the
specifics
and
here's
how
we're
going
to
work
this.
B
So
after
we're
done
with
a
couple
of
short
presentations
here,
we're
going
to
open
up
first
two
questions
from
community
members
and
then
shift
right
into
questions
from
the
press
to
make
sure
that
we're
being
as
transparent
as
possible
about
all
the
work
that
is
unfolding.
Thank
you.
So
much
with
that
deputy
chief
huffman.
C
C
Caring
for
our
community
is
at
the
core
of
how
I
approach
our
work
and
will
continue
to
be
at
the
center
of
this
department
as
we
move
forward
together.
Part
of
that
care
is
recognizing
the
fear
and
harm
caused
by
the
increases
in
violent
crime
gun
violence
continues
to
disproportionately
affect
our
most
diverse
neighborhoods.
C
One
significant
thread
running
through
our
violent
crime
patterns,
particularly
the
carjacking
cases,
is
the
prevalence
of
young
people
who
are
repeatedly
involved
in
these
crimes.
As
mayor
frye
mentioned
in
the
past
two
years,
39
young
people
under
the
age
of
18
have
been
arrested
three
or
more
times
for
a
robbery
that
includes
carjackings.
C
C
As
the
mayor
mentioned.
Accountability
and
compassion
aren't
mutually
exclusive,
they
go
hand
in
hand,
and
today,
community
is
calling
on
all
of
us
who
have
a
hand
in
making
this
city
safer
to
account
for
how
we
are
meaningfully
intervening
to
prevent
young
people
from
involvement
in
this
high
risk.
Harmful
behavior
police
prosecutors,
judges,
probation
community-based
organizations,
schools,
churches,
families
to
deliver
results
to
our
community.
We
must
work
together.
C
Today,
we've
brought
together
minneapolis
police
department,
commanders
and
inspectors,
the
folks
who
supervise
investigations
and
our
patrol
response
throughout
the
city.
They
can
answer
questions
and
talk
about
the
specific
work,
that's
being
done
in
our
investigations
units
in
our
precincts
throughout
the
city
that
includes
working
with
communities
to
provide
crime,
prevention,
information
and
safety
tips,
deterring
crime
with
the
presence
of
officers,
particularly
in
crime.
C
Hot
spots,
working
to
apprehend
offenders,
responding
to
911
calls
to
provide
assistance
to
victims
and
to
do
those
preliminary
investigations
that
are
so
critical
for
the
progress
of
casework,
collecting
and
processing
evidence
to
identify
suspects
many
times
it
doesn't
get
talked
about,
but
I
can't
emphasize
enough
the
critical
work
that
our
professional
non-sworn
staff
do
in
the
minneapolis
police
department.
We
could
not
do
the
work
that
we
do
without
their
support
and
the
work
of
the
crime
lab
is
particularly
key
in
investigating
these
violent
crime
cases.
C
Our
investigators,
of
course,
are
the
ones
who
are
shepherding
this
work
through
doing
the
hard
work
of
putting
all
of
the
pieces
of
the
puzzle
together
and
presenting
those
cases
to
the
prosecutors
for
the
appropriate
charging
decisions,
and
then
we
work
together
with
our
criminal
justice
partners
and
community.
Throughout
the
course
of
those
cases,
we
have
an
extraordinary
workforce
in
the
minneapolis
police
department
and
they
are
showing
up
to
serve
this
community
every
single
day,
trying
to
perfect
the
art
of
doing
more,
with
much
much
less
to
the
inspectors
and
commanders
who
joined
us
today.
B
We'll
get
to
the
questions
in
just
one.
Second,
I
want
to
first
invite
up
inspector
charlie
adams
who's
doing
some
really
incredible
work
here
over
in
the
fourth
precinct,
and
I
also
want
to
give
a
huge
congratulations
as
his
daughter.
Brittany
will
be
one
of
the
first
in
this
recruiting
class,
which
is
actually
graduating
tonight
to
get
sworn
in.
Big,
congratulations
to
inspector
charlie
adams
and
I
like
to
invite
you.
D
Thank
you
mayor,
I'm
not
going
to
repeat
what
the
what
the
mayor
said,
but
I'll,
let
you
know,
we've
had
a
unique
situation
over
last
summer
and
we
had
with
our
staffing
was
low.
We
had
several
hot
spots
that
I
really
could
not
cover
with
my
officers
because
they
were
busy
hitting
you
know,
responding
911
calls,
so
we
reverend
mcafee
called
me
up
during
the
summer
because
he
knew
we
were
having
problems
with
them
hot
spots
and
him
and
some
and
other
black
ministers
and
some
other
churches.
D
We
came
up
with
the
21
days
of
peace,
we
put
them
in
our
hot
spots.
We
had
them
there
and
a
significant
reduction
of
crime
in
those
areas.
You
know
particularly
36
and
penn
35th
and
lindell,
glendale
and
broadway,
which
still
is
a
monster
there
we're
still
having
issues
there.
We
had
a
bishop
powell
had
one
of
his
members
who
were
part
of
our
team.
D
She
actually
took
a
bullet
and
I
believe
in
her
in
her
hip,
but
she's
fine
now,
but
it
shows
you
how
community
stepped
up
for
us
in
north
minneapolis,
and
I
want
to
thank
them
for
being
there
and
doing
that
for
us.
We've
also
been
doing
enforcement
details
with
commander
case
people
and
and
inspector
peterson's,
our
server
team
and
my
cert
team
and
we've
been
act
very
active
all
summer.
We've
taken
a
lot
of
guns
off
we've
made
a
lot
of
arrests.
D
Miss
crockett
can
tell
you
we
hit
broadway
and
lindell
on
one
day
and
I
like
to
call
it
was
an
airstrike
we
went
in
there.
I
think
we
rested
multiple
people,
we
a
lot
of
guns,
and
I
can
remember
my
text
messaging
from
everybody
in
the
community
yep.
You
said
you
guys
were
going
to
do
and
you
did
it
we'll
continue.
Those
these
are
those
enforcement
details.
D
Currently,
my
cert
team,
along
with
the
other
shirt
teams,
are
out
there
trying
to
locate
some
of
these
young
folks
are
doing
carjacking.
I
know
they
made
arrests
earlier
today,
we've
actually
went
before
I
got
in.
We
recovered
two
other
stolen
vehicles,
so
our
team
and
the
men
and
women
of
the
fourth
precinct
and
mpd
are
out
there
continuing
to
do
their
enforcement
and
make
sure
we
have
a
safe
city
to
live
in
with
that,
like
I
said,
I
applaud
my
community
partners
and
ms
crockett.
I
appreciate
your
support.
D
B
E
I
hear
you
say
that
some
of
the
juveniles
have
been
arrested
three
times
or
more,
and
some
have
been
arrested
five
times
before,
and
you
talk
about
intervention
and
solutions,
and
I
also
sit
on
the
hennepin
county
community
corrections
advisory
and
I
have
asked
repeatedly:
why
is
it
when
you
know
who
these
people
are?
We
can't
get
our
hands
on
them
and
do
something
to
intervene,
prevent
redirect
them
so
that
they
don't
keep
on
coming
back.
How
do
they
get
arrested
that
many
times
and
keep
getting
out
that
proposal.
B
I
think
that's
exactly
the
right
question
and
I'll
just
repeat
it,
which
is
I
mentioned
earlier,
that
there
were
around
39
young
people
since
2020
that
had
been
arrested
more
than
three
times
and
for
the
most
part
yeah.
We
are
talking
about
carjackings,
but
it's
other
forms
of
violent
crime
as
well,
and
the
question
was:
why
have
they
not
been
diverted
not
just
from
the
criminal
justice
system
but
properly
transitioned
to
doing
something?
You
know
more
productive,
a
better
outlet,
safe
recreational
activities
and
yes
getting
assistance
that
they
so
desperately
need.
B
That
is
the
work
that
is
so
important
right
now
and
we,
and
by
we
I
mean
our
office,
is,
is
pulling
together
the
right
partners,
literally,
as
we
speak,
to
make
sure
that
people
aren't
dropping
through
the
cracks
and
one
of
the
pieces
that
I
think
we
all
have
to
recognize
is
there
one
is
no
magic
wand
fix
and
two
there
is
no
one
size
fits
all
approach.
You
have
to
approach
each
individual
kid
with
the
dignity,
the
respect
and
the
individuality
that
they
deserve.
B
We
need
to
make
sure
that
they
are
safe
and
our
public
is
safe
from
some
of
these
violent
acts
and
yes,
we
do
need
to
make
sure
there
is
accountability
in
place
and
where
is
necessary.
Yes,
we
need
to
take
some
pretty
serious
actions.
Also,
we
recognize
that
we
don't
just
want
to
have
kids
heading
into
the
criminal
justice
system
for
the
long
haul,
and
so
the
work
that
you
do
by
the
way
is
greatly
appreciated.
E
E
E
B
B
B
Yes,
it
does
become
increasingly
difficult.
Now,
notwithstanding,
all
of
that,
the
big
point
of
what
I'm
telling
you
is
arrests
have
been
made.
Arrests
are
being
made.
That
is
not
the
whole
dynamic
that
we
need
to
be
looking
at.
It
must
be
a
comprehensive
approach
and
it
must
be
multi-jurisdictional,
so
we're
working
yes
with
the
city
and
our
police,
yes
also
with
the
prosecutors
and
and
the
hennepin
county
attorney,
and
yes
with
the
courts
as
well,
we
all
need
to
be
working
together.
H
D
D
C
H
Play
games
but
then
our
community
got
to
stand
up.
Our
community
gotta
say
this.
This
behavior
is
not
acceptable
and
start
doing
some
stuff
about
it.
We
can't
wait
for
law
enforcement
to
do
it,
because
the
way
we're
doing
things
right
now,
we'll
still
be
here,
and
so
everybody
gotta
pull
their
boots
on
and
start
dealing
with
this
families.
If
you
having
problems
with
your
child,
you
need
to
know
the
resources
that
you
can
go
to,
that
you
can
get
your
kid
help.
You'll,
never.
F
H
J
H
K
J
J
J
C
F
F
J
K
J
That
we're
seeing
a
lot
of
the
carjacking.
Do
you
not
know
that
the
girls
are
doing
it
now?
So
it
was
a
lot
of
programs
for
young
black
boys
and
young
black
men,
but
they
left
the
girls
of
color
behind.
So
what
did
I
end
up
with
a
lot
of
native
american
girls
and
african-american
girls,
knocking
on
the
doors
of
the
church
and
knocking
on
the
doors
of
the
hospitals
and
looking
for
me
so.
J
C
J
K
N
J
To
come
as
a
young
girl
in
the
city,
we
haven't
had
any
any
gender-based
violence,
any
gender-based
violence,
prevention
programs-
we
haven't
had
anybody
thinking
about
these
girls,
so
why
do
you
think
you
got
an
uptick
of
now?
The
girl
that's
committing
these
violence,
and
I
know
him
because
I
got
him
so
tonight
we'll
have
about
150
to
200
women
and
girls
here
that
have
been
shot
this
year
in
this
city.
J
J
Right
so
I
said:
how
do
we
dig
our
community
instead
of
complaining?
Let's
be
proactive
and
let's
create
program,
for
I
focus
strictly
on
young
girls,
young
black
girls
african-american.
So
then
we
just
got
a
long
pass
in
this
state
for
black
women
and
girls.
Why
did
it
take
that?
Why
did
my
sister
have
to
get
shot
at?
Nobody
come
to
her
rescue
and
I
grew
up
in
the
third
precinct
and
I
own
property
over
there
right
and
I'm
in
north
minneapolis.
So
you
might
as
well
say
I'm
all
over
the
city.
J
I
know
what
I'm
talking
about
I've
seen
it
first-hand
and
if
we
don't
begin
to
make
some
changes
and
become
more
with
the
police
as
partnership,
I
take
a
call
every
thursday,
with
the
precinct,
the
hennepin
county
sheriff
the
parole
officers.
We
take
that
with
the
office
of
violence
prevention,
sasha,
cotton
she's
doing
as
much
as
she
can,
but
now
we
need
the
police
to
back
us.
We
need
to
bear
to
back
us
and
we
can't
just
be
talking
anymore.
J
We
need
to
actually
show
action
so
that
we
can
get
ahead
of
this
violence.
That
is
coming.
This
summer,
do
you
guys
just
know
we
got
about
nine
people
shot
over
the
weekend?
So,
while
everybody's
chilling
my
work,
don't
stop,
so
we
need
to
go
another
direction
of
being
proactive
versus
react.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
I
I
I
I
I
B
B
F
I
want
to
follow
up
on
this
ladies
question,
and
you
and
chief
huffman
mentioned
the
39
kids
that
have
been
arrested
three
times
the
29
or
the
people
mentioned
five
or
more
times.
It
certainly
suggests
more
than
falling
through
the
cracks,
something's
not
happening,
and
I'm
not
sure
it's
with
the
folks
standing
behind
you
I
mean.
F
C
And
to
do
that,
we
need
all
the
partners
to
come
to
the
table.
To
have
that
pragmatic
conversation
that
mayor
frye
was
mentioning.
So
we
need
to
sit
at
the
table
with
all
of
those
partners.
We
need
to
look
at
the
at
the
data
at
the
list
of
the
offenders
that
we
have
in
front
of
us
at
in
each
individual
set
of
circumstances
and
identify
what
those
meaningful
interventions
are
going
to
be.
C
C
G
B
Yeah,
we
have
a
number
of
strategies
that
are
being
implemented
right
now,
some
of
them
throughout
the
precincts
that
you
may
or
may
not
be
aware
of
the.
I
think
one
of
the
pieces
that
we
are
focusing
on
right
now
is
making
sure
that
the
process
is
collective
enough
and
it's
not
just
focused
on
police
because,
as
was
mentioned,
they
are
arresting
people,
they
are
doing
their
jobs
to
the
extent
they
can,
with
massive
attrition,
to
make
sure
that
perpetrators
are
yes
held
accountable
and
that
we
have
diversion
where
appropriate
and
simultaneously
yeah.
B
We
also
need
to
be
making
sure
that
other
partners,
including
community,
including
the
judicial
branch,
including
hennepin
county
all
of
us,
are
stepping
up
at
the
same
time
we're
not
pointing
fingers
at
anybody
specifically
right
now,
and
I
think
that's
a
really
important
facet,
because
these
are
complex
situations.
It
wouldn't
be
fair
to
do
so,
but
it
is
fair
to
say:
look.
We
need
everybody
there
to
do
this
work
together
and
to
acknowledge
that
these
these
problems
are
tough
and
they
deserve
immediate
answers,
especially
for
our
communities
that
are
suffering
like
here.
B
On
the
north
side,
I
do
want
to
ask,
because
I
know
that
there
is
a
lot
of
work
going
on
in
a
number
of
our
our
precincts
that
are
are
narrowly
and
uniquely
tailored
to
the
work
they
are
seeing
in
their
respective
communities.
I
just
want
to
see
if
any
of
our
respective
inspectors
want
to
give
a
rundown
of
the
work
that
they're
seeing.
M
Hi,
so
I'm
katie
blackwell
and
I'm
the
fifth
precinct
inspector
in
the
southwest
portion
of
the
city
and
so
for
us.
What
we've
been
doing
is
not
only
doubling
and
tripling
up
patrols,
robbery,
suppression,
details,
directed
patrols
in
the
area,
but
we're
heavily
relying
upon
the
community
and
we've
asked
for
their
help
and
we've
been
to
numerous
community
meetings
and
they've
come
to
the
table
to
help
us.
We've
also
met
with
victims
and
other
people
that
are
related
to
these
cases
and
I'll
just
say
that.
M
Thank
you
to
the
victims
that
came
forward
to
share
your
story,
you're,
unbelievably
courageous,
to
educate
the
public
and
to
work
with
our
investigators
so
that
we
can
get
through
these
cases
and
charge
them
out
and
get
people
in
custody.
So
thank
you
and
I
just
want
the
victims
to
know
as
traumatic
as
it
is.
It
wasn't
your
fault,
it's
not
your
fault.
M
The
other
thing
that
we've
been
doing
is
collaborating
with
metro
agencies,
our
neighboring
borders
with
edina
and
st
louis
park,
and
many
other
metro
areas,
and
I
think
the
biggest
point
of
note
is
that
we,
this
isn't
just
a
thing
that
we've
been
doing
just
recently
working
on
all
these
cases.
These
extra
patrols
working
through
community
we've
been
doing
it
for
several
months.
These
cases
are
highly
complex.
M
They
take
time
and
it's
not
just
one
law
enforcement
problem.
It's
not
just
prosecutors
problem,
judges,
problem
or
community
problem,
they're
happening
everywhere,
and
they
take
time,
and
so
investigators
and
specialty
teams
have
been
working
extraordinary
amount
of
hours,
extraordinary
amount
of
hours
on
these
cases
and
they're
doing
their
due
diligence
to
make
sure
that
they're
getting
charged
out
and
we've
had
several
conversations
with
juvenile
partners
and
with
prosecutors
and
other
entities
and
we're
all
coming
together,
collaborate,
collaborate
collaboratively
to
to
make
sure
that
we
can
follow
through
with
these
charges.
M
But
I
do
want
to
just
one
more
time
to
thank
the
community
for
your
help
out
there
being
our
eyes
and
ears,
because
we
cannot
be
everywhere
at
once
and
so
to
our
civilian
partners
like
we
push
for
peace
and
mother's
love
and
and
these
other
entities
that
have
helped
us
along
the
way.
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
to
you
as
well.
L
L
B
I
mean
the
directive
is
always
to
focus
on
the
most
violent
and
significant
crimes.
First,
especially
when
you
have
limited
resources,
you
need
to
focus
on
crimes
where
there's
potential
for
significant
injury
or
loss
of
life.
I
think
that's
always
a
general
rule
in
policing
to
the
extent
there's
been
any
further
directive.
No,
no,
that
is.
That
is
not
the
case,
because
I
mean
these
these
carjackings,
let's
be
real,
they
are
violent,
they
are
dangerous.
People
are
terrified
by
them
and
they
need
to
stop.
B
G
K
Heard
a
couple
of
times
now
talking
about
the
21
days
of
peace
and
the
effectiveness
of
this
program,
that's
been
out
there
now
for
a
lot
more
than
21
days,
but
it
sounds
like
I'm
just
speaking
with
wrath
that
it's
a
couple
hours
here
and
a
couple
hours
there.
If
it's
effective
and
it
sounds
like
there's
some.
N
K
Its
effectiveness
and
reducing
violence
in
the
areas
that
they're
at
is
there
any
plan
to
expand
that
to
give
them
more
money
because
it
sounds
like
that's.
Those
are
the
constraints.
Right
now
is
that
there
are
financial
constraints,
but
it
sounds
like
if
that's
working
and
the
mpd
is
a
little
bit
short
staffed
right
now
or
a
lot
short
step.
Any
plans
to
expand
that
or
work
on
that
even
more
21.
B
Days,
apiece
has
been
doing
some
incredible
work
for
now.
As
you
mentioned
far
more
than
21
days.
I
mean
at
this
point
we're
going
on
over
a
year
in
some
instances
and
they
have
there.
There
has
been
money
that
has
been
received
and
I
think,
there's
more
money
that
needs
to
go
down
that
pike,
because
clearly,
they've
had
effective
results.
Now,
I'm
not
going
to
make
a
commitment
here
at
a
press
conference
for
a
specific
amount
of
money.
F
N
B
First,
you
are
right,
perception
does
become
reality
at
a
certain
point,
but
let's
be
real.
Reality
is
also
reality,
and
the
reality
is
is
that
the
north
side
here
has
suffered
the
vast
majority,
or
certainly
plurality,
of
the
gun,
violence
throughout
our
city
and
in
fact,
it's
pretty
close
to
50
percent.
B
B
Now
I
think
it's
no
coincidence
that
I
have
been
to
this
particular
church,
perhaps
more
than
my
own
synagogue
over
the
last
couple
years,
and
that
is
because
we
want
to
make
sure
that
we
are
here
in
community
on
a
constant
basis,
doing
everything
we
can
to
help
where
it's
needed
most.
Undoubtedly,
the
north
side.
Fourth
precinct
south
side.
Third
precinct
downtown.
First
precinct,
we
have
seen
significant
upticks
there,
but
the
numbers
were
already
substantially
high,
even
before
an
epidemic
of
gun
violence.
B
Now,
what
we're
seeing
as
you
mentioned
is
upticks
in
other
areas
of
the
city
as
well,
including
the
fifth
precinct.
You
know,
people
all
collectively
need
to
open
their
eyes
to
these
issues.
The
north
side
has
had
their
eyes
open
to
them
for
a
long
time
now
and
so
they're
very
familiar,
and
that
familiarity
is
not
comfortable.
It's
not
comfortable
for
anyone,
and
we
hear
from
mothers
and
fathers
on
a
daily
basis
about
the
issues
that
they
face
and
I'll
tell
you.
It
is
not
fair.
B
A
A
B
Community
center,
I
think,
is
a
vital
asset.
Our
office,
through
this
last
budget,
just
invested
an
additional
2.6
million
dollars
that
will
be
ongoing
on
an
annual
basis
for
youth
wreck
in
parks.
That
is
not
enough
money.
We
need
more
on
top
of
that,
and
so
we're
going
to
be
going
to
the
state
legislature
with
additional
asks
in
the
form
of
this
multi-billion
dollar
surplus
that
will
be
coming
down
the
pike
so
that
we
can
push
for
expanded
youth
wreck
and
I'll.
Tell
you.
North
minneapolis
will
absolutely
be
a
priority.
B
North
commons
will
be
a
priority.
There
are
parks
and
rec
centers
throughout
the
city
that
need
the
additional
refurbishing
and
we
also
have
a
number
of
of
even
sites
that
we've
looked
at
to
determine
where
best
those
outlets
and
activities
can
take
place,
and
I
know
you've
made
an
excellent
proposal
exactly
on
that
front.