The police department in Minneapolis still exists, and will continue to do so unless the Minneapolis Charter Commission and voting public of Minneapolis approve the city council’s proposal. According to the city charter, the council is responsible for the funding of the department -- and is required to maintain a minimum force determined by the city's population -- about 723 officers based on recent population estimates. Violent crime rose 55% Minnesota Public Radio reported, "Just months after leading an effort that would have defunded the police department, Minneapolis City Council members at Tuesday’s work session pushed Police Chief Medaria Arradondo to tell them how the department is responding to the violence." Advocates say they'd like to see the department's funds be used to support community policing efforts, social work, and drug treatment policies. All rights reserved, laws which disproportionately target Black people, $494 million worth of military gear to local police departments, Family Visa Requirements Beyond Brexit: Future Changes Affecting British Citizens in the EU, New Reports Assess Changes to Asylum Support Contracts, Attack on Asylum Seekers in Glasgow Shows the Need for Housing Reform, Trans Migrants’ Lives at Risk: Black Trans Lives Matter, Rebecca Long-Bailey’s Crime? "The department has been making an average of 80% fewer traffic stops each week since May 25, the day of Floyd’s death, according to an analysis by Bloomberg City Lab.".

In August, the commission voted to take an extra 90 days to review the proposal, meaning the proposal will miss the deadline to appear on the ballot in November. As with bail reform the defunders risk a backlash. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has stated he does not support abolishing the police department, so the city council’s proposal sought to amend the city charter through a second method: putting it on the ballot. The vote, however, was just the first step in the process of actually doing so: The Minneapolis charter requires a police department and the city council cannot unilaterally alter the city charter. It's very professional, in the same way that an emergency room doctor shows professional restraint when pulling out an unlikely object some poor fool had imprudently inserted into his rectum. Bear in mind this is coming after just a few months of reduced policing, due in part to extra demands and difficulty and probably in part due to police pulling back either out of fear or reluctance (blue flu) as also happened in Baltimore after the Freddie Gray killing and consequent protests and riots.

Click the link we sent to , or click here to log in. Would be interesting to compare July, August, September statistics YoY. Just the fact check ..." So I salute you, Alec: You are smart, but (and I'm sure I'm not the first to say this) you are no smart alec. The article was originally published by Fox News, and the body of the article contains more nuance than the Post headline, noting that the city council “took several steps toward dismantling the city's police department.” The article’s title on Fox News also reads: “Minneapolis City Council alarmed by surge in crime months after voting to defund the police.” However, the article does not provide details about the charter-amendment process, and “defund” has become such an ambiguous term that, especially with the New York Post headline, many social media users were left confused or with an incorrect impression about the current status of the police department.

Minneapolis defunded police.

Just as in the original version of this movie, the real villains are clearly both parents…….. Read More. Minneapolis, Minnesota’s plan to defund and then disband their local police force has “collapsed” according to a New York Times report from over the weekend. But for much of the two-hour meeting, council members told police Chief Medaria Arradondo that their constituents are seeing and hearing street racing which sometimes results in crashes, brazen daylight carjackings, robberies, assaults and shootings. I doubt any other officer will risk his freedom or his pension at this point for a town full of so many ingrates. Police do feel under fire nationwide rightly or wrongly. I don’t know and frankly don’t give a fook. The idea of defunding a police department is just as insane and hilariously, gloriously stupid as the patient's folly, but it had nothing to do with the actual purpose of the article, so, like any real professional, you didn't succumb to the normal human reaction. …Just months after leading an effort that would have defunded the police department, City Council members at Tuesday’s work session pushed chief Medaria Arradondo to tell them how the department is responding to the violence…More people have been killed in the city in the first nine months of 2020 than were slain in all of last year. So BADLY wanted to send it to my brother in MPLS with an ultimate snide/bust comment, like “Your city is governed by 13 year olds.” He was for defunding.