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The measure would have removed minimum staffing levels for sworn officers, renamed the Minneapolis Police Department as the Minneapolis Department of Public Safety, and shifted oversight of the new agency from the mayor's office to the city council. [1] It required the support of 51 percent of voters in order to pass.
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety (DPS) is a department of the State of Minnesota in the United States. DPS is an enforcement, licensing and services agency that develops and operates programs in the areas of law enforcement, traffic safety, alcohol and gambling, fire safety, driver licensing, vehicle registration, emergency management and public safety information.
The Minneapolis City Council on Monday approved an agreement with the federal government in response to the murder of George Floyd that would require reforms within the city’s police department ...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) began investigating the Minneapolis Police Department in April 2021 after Floyd, who was Black, was murdered by white police officers. ... bias-free public safety ...
The Justice Department has opened 12 similar investigations of state and local law enforcement agencies since April 2021, many in response to high-profile deaths at the hands of police. Assuming court approval, Clarke said, the department will be enforcing 16 policing “pattern and practices” settlements across the country.
"We weren't blown out of the water. We were in the fight," said a supporter of the ballot initiative that would have replaced the Minneapolis Police Department.
A proposed Minneapolis charter amendment that would have replaced the Minneapolis Police Department with a Department of Public Safety and eliminated the position of Chief of Police was rejected by a margin of 56% to 44% in the November 2021 general election. [125]
Eighteen months after George Floyd's murder sparked calls for radical change in Minneapolis, voters rejected a proposal to replace the city police department with a Department of Public Safety.