Minneapolis city council just voted to disband the police force and have given themselves a year deadline to come up with some stupid “community centric” alternative (articles I’ve read include diverting funding into the arts (because people only rape when they suck at painting I guess?)).
Let’s assume they actually carry through and the nightmare they’ve proposed becomes reality. How long do you think it’ll take before the people realize how utterly stupid this idea was and - whether it be in name or not - bring back stability through policing?
Reason I ask: I’m expecting the price of land and property to absolutely plummet shortly after there heads go full up their ass and I have no problem buying cheap property if there’s a foreseeable substantial uptick in the price in the (relatively near) future. Obviously it would be asinine to attempt to do anything with the land and build on it or set up shop on it, shitty “community centric policing” gives me little confidence that a business or building wouldn’t be gutted near immediately. But I also think people will eventually realize the horror of what they’ve done and reverse course (we did go from Obama to Trump) and once course is changed, prices go back up. So I’ll just sit on it (figuratively speaking, no way I’d actually be remotely close to the dumpster fire they lit), and wait.
Thoughts, ideas?
I’d expect them to hike up property taxes too (until they realize they want developers to return, then they may consider moderately lowering them (but that’ll be late game anyway)). But if my property is seen as worthless because I’m not pouring money into it and because no one is willing to pay a decent price for it as is... cool by me. They tax by percent, but that means little when the value is so low.
Too true and good point. I should probably do some homework and reading on the tax laws passed in cities that once/still are seeing declines like what can be anticipated for this area. I’d imagine (assumption on my part, but I feel it’d be a justified and reasonable one) that while these histories wouldn’t be able to perfectly predict Minneapolis’s/St. Paul’s course of action, it’d at least give me a decent idea on what to expect and I can plan accordingly.
I also saw your comment where you referenced Detroit (I’m enjoying this back and forth!and I think you have some good insight). I agree with your view on how long it’s taking Detroit to come back but also feel like this situation is a bit different. Detroit died slowly from manufacturing flight to other nations with cheaper transportation of goods, increasing ease of communication, increasing foreign consumption, etc. Their decline can’t be quite as easily traced to a single moment as Minneapolis’s soon-to-be. To my knowledge (part of the homework I need to do), St. Paul and Minneapolis aren’t currently at the level they are now because of manufacturing, so I’m not as concerned about something like the decline Detroit saw because what Detroit saw was a much more complicated and difficult to reverse beast.
Uh no mention of the race riots in 1967? The national guard was there. The mayor told white people to leave. Massive white flight occurred. Along with manufacturing.