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On March 12, 2021, the city council approved by an 11–2 vote, the plan by Cunningham, Fletcher, and Schroeder to put before voters a proposal to eliminate the city charter requirement to maintain a police force of a minimum number of officers based on the city's population, rename the Police Department as the Department of Public Safety, and ...
The Minneapolis City Council approved the contract — which includes 22% pay increases over three years — with the department's union even as some council members expressed frustration that ...
A majority of City Council members support dismantling or defunding the department. “(Officers) don’t feel appreciated,” said Mylan Masson, a retired Minneapolis officer and use-of-force expert.
[35] [78] Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey was booed by a large crowd of protestors after refusing to defund and abolish the police. [79] Nine members of the Minneapolis City Council—a veto-proof majority—pledged on June 7, 2020 to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department, despite opposition from Mayor Frey. [80]
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 ...
Reclaim the Block is a grassroots organization founded in 2018 and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. [1] The group organized protest and started petitions to pressure the Minneapolis City Council to divest money from the Minneapolis Police Department to be spent instead on subsidized housing, addiction resources, youth homelessness causes and crime prevention programs.
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 ...
[85] Minneapolis City Council said that a possible solution would be to implement a program, like Cahoots, already successfully deployed in Eugene Oregon since 1989. Cahoots is a "nonprofit mobile crisis intervention program" in Eugene that handles 24,000 "mental health calls" a year representing 20 percent of Eugene's 911 calls.