Minneapolis Voters Say "No" to Disbanding Police
Details of the new department, including police staffing levels, if any, would have been determined by the mayor and largely anti-police City Council members.
November 3, 2021
Details of the new department, including police staffing levels, if any, would have been determined by the mayor and largely anti-police City Council members.
November 3, 2021
One man said he wanted to see police reform but still wanted to keep the Minneapolis Police Department intact. “You put the people in power that went to school for this stuff and you let them do their job,” he said.
November 1, 2021
Police say since mid-August, more than 40 Uber and Lyft drives have been robbed or carjacked with 12 in just the last seven days.
October 25, 2021
Officer Brian Cummings was pursuing the driver of a stolen vehicle in north Minneapolis when his marked squad car slammed into the driver's side of Leneal Frazier's Jeep, at nearly 80 miles per hour.
October 22, 2021
Anoka County Sheriff's deputies and Blaine police officers tried stopping the suspect's vehicle with spike strips and PIT maneuvers. The determined suspect kept going until his vehicle could no longer move.
September 29, 2021
Sent Wednesday, the letter from 26 residents says they have been left to “twist in the winds of violence” for over a year, with the violence including deaths of children due to gunfire. The group says the city as a whole has seen 69 “murders” this year so far, and things are getting worse with more incidents including automatic gunfire.
September 23, 2021
In a ruling late Thursday, the state supreme court reversed a district court's decision to block the city from counting votes on the question. There was no memo immediately explaining the court's decision
September 17, 2021
All four of the men appeared at the hearing remotely via videoconference. Chauvin appeared from a room in the state's maximum security prison, where he is serving a 22 1/2-year sentence for murder in Floyd's death.
September 14, 2021
The new public safety department could likely still include police officers — though the city would no longer be required to keep a minimum number based on the city's population — and would be under the combined control of the Council and the mayor.
September 1, 2021
The proposal the anti-police Yes 4 Minneapolis wrote would remove language in the charter that requires the city to keep a Police Department with a minimum number of officers based on population.
August 31, 2021
Ken Sherman, owner of Seven restaurant in Minneapolis, was quoted saying, "This city is run by gangs. The only thing a bad guy is afraid of is a badder guy."
August 25, 2021
Police Chief Medaria Arrandondo, in an internal memo Thursday, said the move comes after examining how officers can better use time and resources.
August 13, 2021
The charter change would put the city council in charge of the department, instead of the mayor, and remove requirements to hire police based on the city's population size.
August 13, 2021
The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a request from the city of Minneapolis for an emergency review of a judge's order requiring at least 730 police officers be on the force by next summer in order to comply with the city charter's requirement.
August 11, 2021
In an Aug. 2 opinion piece for Southside Pride, a local monthly newspaper, titled "The Cops Started It," Minneapolis DFL Chair Devin Hogan argued that the burning of the Third Precinct on May 28, 2020, three days after George Floyd’s death, was a "proportional response."
August 11, 2021
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