[Mpls] Challenge to Mayor Rybak and Black Community by Dwight Hobbes

[WizardMarks]

gemgram wrote:

>  Who of you reading this can believe that drug dealers would be
>allowed to openly, and in numbers, do business at  50th and Xerxes, or along
>Lake of the Isles.  Who of you reading this would believe that if half the
>drug dealers from 26th and James or Knox were transplanted to Kenwood behind
>the Guthrie they would be there even an hour? 
>
This argument doesn't wash for me because, as I think I've stated 
before, drug dealing happens in a different way in the high rent 
districts. In New York City, it's internet ordering and home  delivery 
(just like the pizza guy, but without advertising on the roof or the 
car). In Edina, Minnetonka, and Kenwood, it's private parties and the 
dealer delivers to the party just like a door-to-door salesman. Probably 
more than half our objections to dealers would end if the corner boys 
would adopt a different method of dealing. Rent an office or something? 
Only part of our objections lie in the dealing. Much more important is 
the activity ancillary to the dealing.

WizardMarks, Central

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