Mark, This is not a myth. Last year when I was working in Jordan, WCCO came out and did an interview with one of our residents who had been collecting license plates numbers for several months. They then ran those plate numbers through the Dept of Public Safety, 70% came up with addresses outside of Minneapolis. WCCO then video taped 10 drug buys happening that day and ran the plates. Ironically 7 of the 10 were also from outside Minneapolis. This is not a myth. It is very real. No one is saying that no drug dealers or buyers live in the City or even in the neighborhoods, but the primary demand for drugs in impacted neighborhoods comes from suburban buyers who are purchasing their products in open air drug markets. Jordan, Phillips, Whittier, McKinley, Hawthorne, all of these neighborhoods and others have to contend with this and many have lists of license plates that concerned neighbors are tracking. I'm not certain what article you're referencing, but the recent drug sweep was primarily for dealers and they were targeting specific individuals with warrants. In addition, many of the dealers who "live" in North Minneapolis or other parts of the city, actually live in suburbs like Brooklyn Park or Center, but have a friend or relative that they "flop" with and then will list as their address. If you have some information to the contrary, please share it, however, in at least Jordan we have seen it first hand, have the license plate numbers to back it up and you can find the report if you search WCCO. Jonathan Palmer Victory -----Original Message----- From: Mark Wilde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: mpls@mnforum.org Sent: Thu, 12 May 2005 10:28:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Mpls] Suburban drug buyers
Are the drug buyers neighborhood folks or as the case with many in North Minneapolis surburbanites? Bill Dooley Kenny This is a myth that keeps getting stated as a fact. A recent Star Tribune article about a drug sweep over north said most of the people detained in the sweep (both buyers and sellers) lived in North Minneapolis. Do people honestly think that there is no one in the "suburbs" selling drugs? Most people in the suburbs just don't buy their drugs on the street corner. And most of the drug users who live over North don't need to drive to get them. Sure the percentage of cars that get pulled over are from out of the city, that is because the city buyers are on foot. Mark Wilde Windom Park __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:mpls@mnforum.org Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:mpls@mnforum.org Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
