Mpls safe?

 (cont'd from 9-22 post, "Not Reassuring")

Police Inspector McGinty explained to a worried Minneapolis business owner that the police are doing the best they can. But after the City Council took funding away, it resulted in fewer officers to do ordinary policing.

Now more businesses have expressed concern. Forty restaurant owners wrote a letter to Minneapolis' mayor and council to ask for help. They think the public's perception of an unsafe downtown is impacting them.

Spokesperson for the restaurant group says that they want public safety to be a priority:

"We want them to address that there is an issue in downtown that needs to be fixed now, before downtown Minneapolis goes in the wrong direction for good . . . We want zero tolerance for the crime, for the harassment, for the assaults, for the theft. and we want the greater community to know it is not lawless. There is law here.”

Restaurant closures so far for 2020 in StPaul/Mpls are listed here.

from CBSLocal