Thank you for volunteering, Minneapolis."
Posted on 06/07/2020 2:31:50 PM PDT by Ennis85
On Sunday afternoon, a veto-proof majority of Minneapolis City Council members will announce their commitment to disbanding the city’s embattled police department, which has endured relentless criticism in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, on May 25.
“We’re here because we hear you. We are here today because George Floyd was killed by the Minneapolis Police. We are here because here in Minneapolis and in cities across the United States it is clear that our existing system of policing and public safety is not keeping our communities safe,” Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender said Sunday. “Our efforts at incremental reform have failed. Period.”
The City Council’s decision follows those of several other high-profile partners, including Minneapolis Public Schools, and the University of Minnesota, and Minneapolis Parks and Recreation, to sever longstanding ties with the MPD.
The announcement today also arrives after several members of the Council have expressed a complete loss of confidence in the Minneapolis Police Department.
“We are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department,” tweeted Council Member Jeremiah Ellison on June 4, pledging to “dramatically rethink” the city’s approach to emergency response. In a TIME op-ed published the next day, Council Member Steve Fletcher cited the MPD’s lengthy track record of misconduct and “decades-long history of violence and discrimination”—all of which are subjects of an ongoing Minnesota Department of Human Rights investigation—as compelling justifications for the department’s disbandment. “We can resolve confusion over a $20 grocery transaction without drawing a weapon or pulling out handcuffs,” Fletcher wrote.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said last night that he opposed disbanding the police department at a protest organized and led by Black Visions Collective against police violence in the city. That answer earned him a thundering chorus of boos and chants of “Shame!” and “Go home, Jacob, go home!” The New York Times called the scene a “humiliation on a scale almost unimaginable outside of cinema or nightmare.”
“The last Democratic mayor, Betsy Hodges, handled the murder of Jamar [Clark] poorly. We told her she was going to lose her job. And she did,” Miski Noor, a Black Visions Collective organizer, said on Frey’s refusal to disband the Minneapolis Police Department.
Since taking office in January 2018, Frey has overseen reforms to the MPD’s body camera policy that impose harsher discipline on officers who fail to comply, and barred officers from participating in so-called “Bulletproof Warrior” training, which encourages law enforcement to use deadly force if they feel their lives are in jeopardy. The officer who shot and killed Philando Castile during a 2016 traffic stop had attended a seminar two years earlier.
More recently, however, Frey has faced criticism from community groups for supporting increases to the MPD’s budget, and for the city’s failure to invest significantly in community-based public safety programs during his tenure.
For years, activists have argued that MPD has failed to actually keep the city safe, and City Councilmembers echoed that sentiment today during their announcement. MPD’s record for solving serious crimes in the city is consistently low. For example, in 2019, Minneapolis police only cleared 56 percent of cases in which a person was killed. For rapes, the police department’s solve rate is abysmally low. In 2018, their clearance rate for rape was just 22 percent. In other words, four out of every five rapes go unsolved in Minneapolis. Further casting doubt on the department’s commitment to solving sexual assaults, MPD announced last year the discovery of 1,700 untested rape kits spanning 30 years, which officials said had been misplaced.
The Council’s move is consistent with rapidly-shifting public opinion regarding the urgency of overhauling the American model of law enforcement. Since Floyd’s killing and the protests that ensued, officials in Los Angeles and New York City have called for making deep cuts to swollen police budgets and reallocating those funds for education, affordable housing, and other social services. Law enforcement officers are not equipped to be experts in responding to mental health crises, often leading to tragic results—nationally, about half of police killings involve someone living with mental illness or disability. As a result, public health experts have long advocated for dispatching medical professionals and/or social workers, not armed police, to respond to calls related to substance use and mental health. Polling from Data for Progress indicates that more than two-thirds of voters—68 percent—support the creation of such programs, versions of which are already in place in other cities such as, Eugene, Oregon; Austin, Texas; and Denver, Colorado.
“Our commitment is to do what is necessary to keep every single member of our community safe and to tell the truth that the Minneapolis Police are not doing that,” Bender said Sunday. “Our commitment is to end our city’s toxic relationship with the Minneapolis Police Department, to end policing as we know it, and to recreate systems of public safety that actually keep us safe.”
“This might finally bring back the nonexistent white supremacist back into Minneapolis.“
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Sooo, would that be something you would be looking forward to or fearful of?
One wonders what the insurance companies will have to say about this. Minneapolis will become uninsurable.
” And while there was no specific reference made to plans for handling violent crime, Fletcher says the council would “invest in cultural competency and mental health training, de-escalation and conflict resolution.”
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Fairy dust and unicorn poop, too, while you’re at it.
I wonder how much is left to burn?
Guess they’ll find out...
This is crazy. Thank God I’m in Texas. I’m in the process of getting my license to carry. My husband already had his. We are stocked and loaded should anyone try and rob our house.
Disbanding the local police forces is part of an overall agenda to replace it with a nationwide force like the military as Obama has called for. The demonrats could not get their way initially so they have taken to brute force tactics to do so. The calls for disbanding police forces around the country are only coming from the left and have only been supported by the left. When these forces have been replaced by a nationwide one, then no one is safe anymore as it will lead to the gestapo tactics of Germany in the 30’s. They say the Third Reich is dead. However, the Fourth Reich has been planned and is finally being implemented. After WWII, there was considerable analysis on how to take down America. They found the best way to do so was through within rather than though external measures. Soros is manipulating the Blacks against the whites as he has stated in the past they are the easiest to manipulate. The youth of our country have been indoctrinated. There is no turning them away from this indoctrination that their are fed through the LSM. It took approximately 30 years for the plans of the 60’s to take root and grow until what we have today. It will take another 100 years to remove the vitriol that has been surplanted into the minds and institutions of this country. However, that 100 years has not even begun because we have not seen the end of what is happening in America today. The left’s agenda has only scratched the surface and it is going to tae more than roundup to kill the roots. If by 2030 the left has not ehausted all of their agenda, there will be no America afterwards.
What I meant was unintended consequences. From the lefties standpoint, their dumbassery will bring white snipers using their weapon of choice into their city for whatever mayhem they choose to do.
I read that many have already done this......large numbers taking early retirement....
....with their parting words
YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN!!!!!!!
They won’t
The common sense ones will get the hell out
The companies run by soi bois in dresses like target will continue cuckolding
They want to experiment. Let’s see the results.
Trump nearly won Minnesota in 2016. With no police in Minneapolis on Election Day, Sleepy Joe will get 358,532 votes there and Trump will get minus 2,851,048.
*** “Who will protect the thugs, rioters, and looters then? Will there be a bag limit on them?” ***
Neighboring civilization will probably offer a Bounties...
Circle the wagons, protect themselves
Antifa may be grinning ear to ear, Soros is probably giving them all a raise maybe even benefits
In my neck of the woods, a few towns have disbanded their police forces, for financial reasons. It then becomes the responsibility of the state police to police those towns.
And that’s just what the state police do. But while a local cop might answer your call in 10 minutes, it might take a trooper an hour to get there...assuming one is available.
I must assume Minneapolis will be under Sharia law and will become a No-Go City run and policed by muzzies. Dearborn, MI times 4.
Not mysterious at all. I believe the proper term is “Spasmodic”.
Your welcome. Taking one for the team.
Hi.
Unfortunately I read the article. So, what are these geniuses on the city council going to replace the PD with?
If the answer is, “nothing,” Minneapolis will be a ghost town by 2021.
Or Thunderdome...
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