MINNEAPOLIS – Lifelong residents of Minneapolis will tell you there was a time they could walk the city's streets without a care. If the old Minneapolis was anything, it was clean and safe. Today, in many parts of Minneapolis, those days are gone.

Residents Don't Know if Police Will Come, or Even Answer Their Call

While there are still some nice-looking areas, parts of Minneapolis range from risky to dangerous. There are homeless encampments, and addicts roaming the sidewalks get free needles from the city.

The police department is reportedly down from some 900 officers to 550. Residents tell us 911 calls often go unanswered. Some have given up reporting crimes.

Police communications are now encrypted, so citizens can no longer track crimes.

Statistics show that some categories of c

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