The Minnesota GOP-endorsed candidate to take on Amy Klobuchar recently posted a map purporting to show crime in Minneapolis. It was actually a map of drinking fountains. Ope!
It's not even the post I'm disappointed in so much as the blatant laziness of it all. He's a candidate, ffs!
Did he repost the image without bothering to CHECK first? Lazy. Did he knowingly use an image he KNEW was wrong, while ignoring the fact that people could EASILY fact-check it? Also lazy.
It also ignores the fact that MPD was never defunded. Aside from a brief dip in the budget during the Covid years they have had year on year increases in funding.
Also there crime prevention and crime solved statistics are awful
Actually reflects really well on the governor that the state or city has info on water fountains organized in a publicly available mapping tool at such a granular level!