What Can The State Do To Combat Gun Violence? – WCCO
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The violence this weekend continues to drive the query of what cities and even the state might do to forestall extra shootings.
The Twin Cities just isn’t alone within the surge in homicides and gun violence. Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend had 104 shootings. 13 victims had been kids and there have been 19 homicides. Within the Twin Cities, neighborhood teams have rallied, attempting to patrol neighborhoods themselves.
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On the identical time, civil unrest continues to stretch legislation enforcement skinny. Earlier this month, after protests within the aftermath of the capturing demise of Winston Smith, Mayor Jacob Frey reached out to Gov. Tim Walz to have the Nationwide Guard on standby.
However the deployment of Nationwide Guard to neighborhoods has not all the time gone properly. In April, two Guardsmen patrolling north Minneapolis had been shot and obtained minor accidents. And state {dollars} being spent on Minneapolis public security stays controversial with the Minnesota Legislature, the place Republicans blame the surge in violence on the defund the police motion.
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As extra folks flip to the state for assist, is there something the state can do? Gov. Tim Walz was a visitor on WCCO Sunday Morning.
“The state may be companions on this, they completely can,” he stated. “However we might help with [the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension], we might help with data. We’re utilizing federal aid {dollars} to pump cash, and we’ve put $15 million into public security on the entrance finish.”
Minneapolis proper now could be nearly on a report tempo for homicides. There have been 46 this yr. The report was set again in 1995 when the town had 97 murders and earned the disparaging nickname “Murderapolis.”
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