Special Report (11/7/2024)
This special report is on Police and Public Safety. We divide the report into three sections:
1.History - Thoughts from Mary Benrud Gachie about the increased militarization of the Minneapolis police from the 1980s to the 1990s. The audio was cut from this interview she did with her family called The People's Family: https://soundcloud.com/socialistnewsandviews/the-peoples-family-socialist-news-and-views-episode-50-8172023
----
2. My Speech. I originally wrote a speech on Police and Public Safety for a potential Twin Cities Democratic Socialists of America debate/discussion in February 2023 but it got cancelled so here I read that short speech in its entirety.
Poverty, Income Inequality, and Violent Crime: A Meta-Analysis of Recent Aggregate Data Studies: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/073401689301800203?journalCode=cjra
The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/expanded-homicide
What the data says (and doesn’t say) about crime in the United States: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/11/20/facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/
One in 20 US homicides are committed by police – and the numbers aren’t falling: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/15/us-homicides-committed-by-police-gun-violence
Mapping Police Violence: https://mappingpoliceviolence.us/
FBI Clearance stats 2017: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/topic-pages/clearances
National Institute of Corrections (part of the Dept of Justice): https://nicic.gov/what-caused-crime-decline
----
3. Chauntyll Allen, a leader with Black Lives Matter Twin Cities (https://www.facebook.com/Blacklivesmattertwincities/?locale=pt_PT&_rdr)speaks at an October 29th Press Conference about St. Paul Police shooting a man and demands the city release the bodycam footage immediately. Here are more audio/images from that Press Conference on The Urban Cabin Studios YouTube: https://youtu.be/00NS3oV_jTQ?si=6QXkirCedjrpphlz
Police have identified the man who was shot as 40-year-old Earl Bennett but have not released the body camera footage: https://kfgo.com/2024/10/30/man-shot-by-st-paul-police-wanted-in-minneapolis-in-connection-to-two-other-shootings/
