Lower Crime Rate

The article in focus this week in the Star Tribune was about how crime has decreased in Hennepin County. There has been a certain name given to Minneapolis which is not a favorable one which is murderapolis, because of much of the crime. With the news of a lower crime rate I was very pleased. The reason for this decrease in crime was due to a new taskforce according to Sheriff Rich Stanek. This taskforce arrested a total of 60 people, and confiscated 54 guns. A lot of money was also taken from criminals who sell drugs. Stanek says that there are more criminals who are growing marijuana, and he basically compares these farmers with those who are brewers of beer. What I found rather concerning was how other counties feared that criminals will head toward their areas; I mean what do these guys want to keep Hennepin County in bad shape so they could have paradise. Stanek’s new taskforce also took a new approach to gangs; as opposed to arresting individual gang members the taskforce uses past records to arrest groups. Perhaps the most surprising news from this article is what Stanek also credits the recent crime drop which is the collapse of the 35W Bridge. With no explication of this I would have to assume that the bridge was needed by crime to deliver drugs but since the bridge collapsed criminals could not adapt. Overall I am very pleased with this news because people need a society that has no crime I just hope that this recent decrease in crime will pave the way for that.