the warzone continues

[mellowtigger]

My tolerance continues to fray.  Here's a 2-minute video recording that I clipped from the public meeting that my city councilmember held on October 8th. 
http://www.deltaworld.info/media/jordan/minneapolis.ward5.publicsafety.20201008.mp4  (12MB)

When I wrote my earlier "dream" post and started yelling that people should listen to what I hear daily, that was exactly the day that the police officer described in the above MP4 clip.

• 400 people shot, 60 dead, so far this year in Minneapolis
• 809 guns recovered thus far in 2020, a 90% increase over 2019
• 4th police precinct includes my Jordan neighborhood and others here in north Minneapolis
• 42% of all guns recovered in city of Minneapolis are recovered in 4th precinct
• 2020 October 07 Wednesday, 250 bullets fired between 6pm-11pm in 4th precinct

When I repeatedly over years refer to my area as the #WarzoneInMinneapolis, I AM NOT KIDDING!  When government and people of all levels continue to ignore this disaster of a civilization, it is starting to make me angry.  When people talk about going out for a walk to relax in these stressful times, I want to heave an annoyed sigh and glare at them for being so ignorantly privileged to enjoy their own safe sidewalks.  When people talk about traveling for vacations (especially to foreign countries), I want to yell at them to pay some much needed attention to their own crumbling territory first.

I DARE YOU to name exactly what either Donald Trump or Joe Biden would do that will make life better HERE.  On my street.  There were candidates that had ideas that seemed targeted at exactly these painful oversights of government, but people somewhere are collectively responsible for sidelining all of them.  I'm willing to make significant changes.  I blame everyone else for being unwilling to see the suffering that happens near them or to actually solve it.

I am feeling significantly uncharitable to everything associated with "status quo".  The two separate Americas are entirely unsustainable.