The frequency of references to carjacking caused me to make a Google Alert on this topic a couple months ago. It is a remarkably widespread problem, occurring in cities from coast to coast. Two themes that especially jumped out to me were (1) how many of these were being carried out by teens, and (2) how many involved weapons and physical harm to the victim.
Having one's catalytic converter stolen from your car while you are sleeping is one thing. Being struck in the jaw by the butt of a pistol to grab your keys and steal your car is quite another.
On Monday, Sen. Amy Klobuchar conducted a roundtable with six police chiefs to address the spike in carjackings. In Minneapolis, the number of carjacking incidents increased by 537% between 2019 and 2020.
The police chiefs brought up some other concerns, including the need for more resources to deal with the mental health issues here.
Kudos to the senator for speaking openly about the carjacking epidemic and Minnesota crime, which are visible evidence that our social fabric is frayed and coming unravelled.
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-----"The police chiefs brought up some other concerns, including the need for more resources to deal with the mental health issues here."-------
It would be interesting to know how many of the teen car-jackers are already on a cocktail of prescribed psychiatric "meds".
They won't tell us that, though. They'll just say that they need more of them.
I don't know the answer to that but I do know this. I was talking with a doctor who works the emergency room scene and he was shocked that nearly every young person five and older who comes in after slitting their wrists is on some kind of pharmaceutical.
(He actually said, "every child between 5 and 10"... not "nearly every child.."
Things have definitely run amok.
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