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In January 2021, Minneapolis City Council Members Phillipe Cunningham, Steve Fletcher, and Jeremy Schroeder introduced a new city charter amendment to remove the city charter amendment to require a minimum number of police officers, rename the Police Department to the Department of Public Safety, and place the new department under the control ...
Nine of the 13 members of the Minneapolis City Council said Sunday they supported disbanding the police department. Together they make up a “supermajority,” which is essentially veto-proof ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Years after a movement to defund the Minneapolis Police Department and a severe officer shortage in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, the city approved a contract Thursday ...
Minneapolis residents on Tuesday will vote on a hotly contested ballot question to decide the future of policing in their city, whether they want to replace the police department altogether with a ...
Opponents say the measure would make good on the city council's threat in the days after Floyd's death to "defund the police." They say Minneapolis, with a population of about 430,000 people ...
[81] A few weeks after the pledge, the City Council passed a provision for a public referendum to amend the city's charter to do so, as the charter required the city to “fund a police force of at least 0.0017 employees per resident.” [82] [83] The proposed amendment was blocked by the Charter Commission, who said it lacked legal provisions ...
Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender and other council members made their pledge at a community rally Sunday. The city's police department has drawn intense criticism since George Floyd ...
In a letter, Palmisano announced her support for a human rights lawsuit against the Minneapolis Police Department and advocated for "transformative change" of the department and its practices. [9] [10] On January 10, 2022, Palmisano was elected as Vice-President of the Minneapolis City Council in an 8-5 vote. [11]