On the B-N-B show this morning, Greg was preparing listeners for the Mayor’s monthly visit at 8 AM Tuesday (I guess we need to get our adult diapers and barf bags). The topic? The rise of violent crime in Sioux Falls (can’t wait to hear the softballs Greg throws Mike).

One of the reasons my newest obsession is listening to B-N-B‘s show is because of the ‘wisdom’ his listeners dole out. It usually has me in stitches. A caller this morning did not disappoint. This person called in this morning and was talking about the drastic increase in STD’s in young adults (15-25) in Minnehaha and Brookings counties, and at first it sounded like he had some good arguments to make. Then he asks Greg, “Why do you think there has been this drastic increase?” He told Greg it was because of the lack of ‘God’ in young people’s lives.

While a good moral compass isn’t a bad idea, he couldn’t be more wrong. The problem is the lack of education and awareness. When AID’s was running rampant in the homosexual community, they started educating and the rates went down.

The same could be said about crime in Sioux Falls. One of the biggest factors is drug dealing. The community needs to be educated on what to look for, we also need to be getting to young people sooner about drug use. We also need to go whole hog on creating neighborhood watch programs that don’t cost taxpayers diddley, and guess what THEY WORK!

But if I had to take an educated guess as to why crime has increased so drastically in Sioux Falls over the past 5 years, I think it is much simpler then we think;

• Officer retention has been very bad, and SF police officers QUIT at a record rate last year. Not giving a decent COLA didn’t help matters.

• Drug use is going up (happening across the country) and with the lax gun control laws in our state, it is much easier for people to have (get) guns and use them (violently).

• The recession caused a lower class of working people, which tend to commit more crimes, especially when it comes to domestic and drug matters.

• The Boomtown campaign to get people to move here wasn’t well thought out. I don’t think this campaign helped to get professionals or higher income blue collar workers to move here, it got people who were already desperate and suffering where they lived to move here, and let’s face it, wages are not stellar here. In fact, if anything professionals are leaving faster then we are bringing them in. Don’t believe me that lower income workers raided our city? Then why have we seen our food banks and shelters expand so dramatically over the same period of time? While we asked people to move to Sioux Falls, we were not to specific of who we wanted really coming here.

• Also, as a caller this morning pointed out, our core neighborhoods in Sioux Falls are deteriorating, Why? Because we have thrown so much money at big development and urban sprawl, not just tax dollars in the form of TIF’s and Federal dollars but banks have been investing more in the ‘big projects’. How is it that we continue to break building permits each year, yet affordable housing in Sioux Falls is disappearing so fast?

• Lastly, our past and current police chief along with their boss, the mayor, have ignored all the warning signs, and the continue to ignore them.

As we continue to ignore our lower income workers and not pay them better wages, they begin to get desperate, and with desperation comes criminal activity. Maybe we need to hand out more Bibles?

10 Thoughts on “Want to prevent VD and Crime? Find God.

  1. Well, I am not so sure about Minnehaha County, but maybe our First Premier, Yellow Bunny friends up in Brookings County could take a lesson from their amicable competitors down in “River City”……?

    http://www.kdlt.com/2017/01/10/lets-talk-safe-sex-usd/

    …….Oh yes, once again USD leads, while the “Yellow Rabbits,” with their over-charged testosterone in hand, just continue to scrimmage in anticipation for the next game at hand…. 😉

  2. Mike Kokenge Sr on February 21, 2017 at 7:14 am said:

    The wisdom his listeners dole out? Exactly the same reason for me. I never listen live. A typical hour segment can listened to in 30 minutes if you listen to the podcast. I might listen to 2 or 3 segments a week based on the topic. The mayor is always one of my favorites.

    So, who listens to a far right wing radio hack in the morning. Not as many as you might think. Midwest Communications subscribes to Nielsen ratings and the results for right wing radio hackery are not good. kelo radio ranks nearly last within their midwest comm radio sphere. The majority of listening age persons in our metro do not listen to radio. The wide majority of those who do choose music venues. 2.8% of potential listeners is the market share kelo radio enjoys on a daily basis. There is a reason why the same 12 callers call in day after day after day.

  3. 12 callers? LOL. More like 4. Paul, Bruce, Jim and Iraq’s version of Dr. Phil, Quadir Aware.

    Looks like MMM got off the hook this morning, Belfrage’s show isn’t playing, must be sick, or getting an emergency colonoscopy, 🙂

  4. matt johnson on February 21, 2017 at 1:24 pm said:

    lack of education? this blog has often shared where free condoms are given out- the schools have their sex ed classes this is not the sixties- people are educated. As to the crime, there is a little thing called the ten commandments- you don’t even have to be Christian to know about it don’t take what isn’t yours- pretty easy

  5. The D@ily Spin on February 21, 2017 at 6:53 pm said:

    If there’s one person to blame for the high crime rate it’s Mike Huether. The Boomtown Campaign attracted lots unemployable welfare cases. Lack of focus on police (hiring, training, pay) kept us unsafe. Spending on big entertainment complexes and private development misappropriated overestimated sales tax budget. Rounding up the homeless while major drug dealing in city parks went rampant. Spending on commercial advertising and sponsoring sitcoms. Ignoring a prevalent prostitution problem. Listen and Learn styled propaganda production cost but eliminating city meetings video. Overriding council votes and constitutional measures with strong mayor veto. Infrastructure issues that can’t be addressed because the city credit rating nosedived.

    It’s a great city for socialite one percenters. The rest of us buy milk for the baby robbing casinos and convenience stores. I have respect for the criminal Robin Hood types. The Huether Klan can’t see what’s happened because they’re busy playing tennis or lounging in togas at the Midco Bathhouse.

  6. Tell us what warning signs you think the cops have missed. Don’t just complain; offer something constructive. Anybody can complain. Or could it be that you just hate city gov’t so much that you want to burn down everything?

  7. Did I say the cops missed the warning signs? Not sure what you mean? While I may have my beef with certain things certain cops may do, when crime rates go up this drastically, it has to do with leadership, not the soldiers in the field.

  8. Don’t sidestep, what has been missed by whoever you think is responsible, leadership or otherwise? If you throw down a criticism, back it up.

  9. Mike Kokenge Sr on February 22, 2017 at 7:42 am said:

    Drug abuse education begins in the schools. With that in mind Larry, why did the mayors 2017 budget proposal include cutting funding of over $100,000 for Prairie View Preventin?

  10. The D@ily Spin on February 22, 2017 at 9:08 am said:

    Are the invisible police letters to commemorate the ghost in the park? Police are trying despite being underpaid, undermanned, and undertrained. They drive new cars because the mayor gets a kickback on large budget items. More police and a distinguished promotion process is an answer. To bad the mayor blew city budget on minimums for bond payments. Now what? He can’t veto crime but he can veto our safety. Veto that!

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