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Minneapolis to spend $6.4M to recruit more police officers
Dissociated Press ^ | February 13, 2021

Posted on 02/13/2021 9:57:56 PM PST by Olog-hai

Minneapolis is planning to spend $6.4 million to hire dozens of police officers, at a time when some City Council members and activist groups have been advocating to replace the police department following George Floyd’s death.

The City Council voted unanimously Friday to approve the additional funding that police requested. The department says it only has 638 officers available to work — roughly 200 fewer than usual. An unprecedented number of officers quit or went on extended medical leave after Floyd’s death and the unrest that followed, which included the burning of a police precinct.

With new recruit classes, the city anticipates it will have 674 officers available at the end of the year, with another 28 in the hiring process, the Star Tribune reported. …

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TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: defundthepolice; georgefloyd; minneapolis; police
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To: T.B. Yoits

If you only knew how many times that crappy allegation and others were made against me. After a while you get used to it. But, then it gets to a point where those in command begin acting like “obvious truths” don’t exist. The people in charge are so far removed from the street that they act like they don’t understand why someone would be angry about being arrested and thrown in jail. I no longer minded about scumbags hurling false accusations against me, I became irate that the command staff didn’t have my back. There was NO “right vs wrong”. Just a sergeant, wanting to make captain, a captain wanting to become major, a major wanting to become colonel and colonels wanting to make chief. If it means screwing you over to climb that ladder... THEY’LL DO IT WITHOUT BATTING AN EYE!


21 posted on 02/13/2021 10:51:32 PM PST by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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To: T.B. Yoits
Every officer hired knows full well that they’re already guilty of false racism.

And full well that they will have to sacrifice one of their own to the mob from time to time

But hey, anything for that nice fat pension

22 posted on 02/13/2021 11:33:59 PM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: Olog-hai

That is how they defund the police?


23 posted on 02/13/2021 11:37:49 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: The Right Edge
If it means screwing you over to climb that ladder... THEY’LL DO IT WITHOUT BATTING AN EYE!

Boo hoo, how many innocent drivers and people have police screwed over to fulfill quotas, get promotions, get their relatives off and bring in money to their prescient "WITHOUT BATTING AN EYE".

You really expect the leaders coming from such a pool of moral bankrupt thugs to be honorable?

24 posted on 02/13/2021 11:40:34 PM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: max americana; All

I doubt they defunded the police last year. City budgets would already have been in place. This fiscal year they want additional money because of the unrest.


25 posted on 02/13/2021 11:42:16 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: Olog-hai

Let the city burn to the ground and then hire clean-up crews. Start over again, minus the communists, Marxists, black extremists, whitey-haters, and dupes. Maybe they will make it on the second try.

Oh, they must also ban Democrats and reds from holding any city office. If you want a “clean” city, you’ve got to keep the Marxist trash out of it.


26 posted on 02/14/2021 12:08:12 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Viking2002

Anthony Burgess foresaw this in “A Clockwork Orange”. The thugs became the police.


27 posted on 02/14/2021 12:13:41 AM PST by rxh4n1
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To: T.B. Yoits

As a white guy, I wouldn’t take a job as a cop in Minneapolis if they gave me the entire 6.4 million.


28 posted on 02/14/2021 12:19:33 AM PST by albie
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To: Responsibility2nd

You’re right, which makes me wonder what kind of officer they plan to recruit.

Antifa cops?


29 posted on 02/14/2021 12:24:28 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It seems that taking a job as a police officer in Minneapolis is guaranteeing yourself a few years in prison, and loss of pension.


30 posted on 02/14/2021 12:58:11 AM PST by chopperk ( )
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To: SauronOfMordor

Either ANTIFA cops or Somali Sharia enforcers.


31 posted on 02/14/2021 1:05:46 AM PST by ScottinVA (Enough. Divide the country.. now. )
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To: Olog-hai

The only people I see joining the Minneapolis force our officers were just going to use it as a way to get through Academy and stepping stone before jumping ship to a better agency once they complete field training and are fully accredited/certified by the state.


32 posted on 02/14/2021 1:49:44 AM PST by matt04 ( )
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To: McGavin999
I don’t know how they think anyone will ever want to work there.

They'll likely get applicants.

But they won't be anyone you want wearing a badge.

33 posted on 02/14/2021 1:57:01 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: Responsibility2nd

I talked with a City of Atlanta officer the other day. He’s trapped by the pension system. Like Milwaukee, they’re around 25% understrength as well.


34 posted on 02/14/2021 2:02:43 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Maudeen

To be fair, Obama set many of the wheels in motion with his blame of whites and police, even at a memorial for murdered police!


35 posted on 02/14/2021 2:37:44 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: albie

Depends on how long you had to be a cop....


36 posted on 02/14/2021 2:42:34 AM PST by rb22982 ( )
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To: T.B. Yoits

No Somalis are a force there and will be hired.


37 posted on 02/14/2021 2:57:02 AM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Olog-hai

And instead of good officers, it will become a jobs program for the worst sort of humans.


38 posted on 02/14/2021 3:01:48 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Olog-hai

That’s around $100,000 for recruiting one officer.


39 posted on 02/14/2021 3:25:53 AM PST by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHQkryIIs)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Aren’t there a lot of good Muslims they could recruit? (sarc)


40 posted on 02/14/2021 3:55:47 AM PST by oldasrocks
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