A proposal to eliminate the Minneapolis Police Department, but keep the police, passed its first hurdle Friday when City Council voted to refer it to a committee.
The plan, crafted by Council Members Phillipe Cunningham, Steve Fletcher and Jeremy Schroeder, was moved on an 11-2 vote to the Public Health and Safety Committee for review and an eventual public hearing. Backers hope to get the proposal before voters on the November ballot as a charter amendment.
Lisa Goodman and Linea Palmisano voted against the motion to refer the plan to committee. Goodman, in an e-mail, said she felt the plan wasn’t detailed enough and didn’t think the council had fulfilled its promise to spend a year getting feedback from residents. Moving forward, she said, would be “reckless and create more harm than good.”
The plan calls for the city to create a new Department of Public Safety that includes not only police but “additional divisions … to provide for a comprehensive approach to public safety beyond law enforcement.”
It would also eliminate the current charter language that requires Minneapolis to have a minimum police force based on the city’s population.
Mayor Jacob Frey said he supports the idea of taking a broader approach to public safety but expressed concern that the plan would dilute accountability by extending oversight of the department to the 13 council members.
The Charter Commission kept a similar proposal off the ballot last year by invoking its right to take more time to review it. If the current proposal remains on track, the commission won’t be able to keep it off the ballot this fall.
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This just might work, just like the “unity” the foreign government that occupies the whitehouse declares is taking place in America. haha!
Smart Self-governing people come together to collectively form government/police to do only that what they themselves cannot accomplish as individuals,,,,like fight wars and kill and arrest criminals that are out to kill and molest YOU. When socialist collectives form to do that which WE THE PEOPLE were designed to do individually, like peacefully discuss and argue workable social solutions, then collectively vote those solutions in honest uncorrupted elections, they, the government collectives of self-serving men, become self-appointed god-men with designs to make you totally vulnerable and dependent upon THEM. What these American socialist/communists disguised as Democrats are attempting to do is turn America into a 1930’s Germany or 1920s Soviet Union, where THEY and their minority collectives of collective aggression and Party pathology control thought speech and discussion. Death always follows in their wake, especially where free people exist to defy them. Pay a little bit now to defy them, or pay a hell of a lot later, in treasure and yes, the currency of blood, prisons, and American gulags. Even those deceived into voting for their Hate of Trump over Love of country and freedoms, are awakening and will join to resist them, when the pain and corruption become too unbearable. That point comes ever closer with each Biden Presidential dictatorial edict that just feeds those bent on destroying American Strength, at the cost of surrender to International interests.
IMO having pigs fly, will work before, ANY OF THESE libtard plans do.
The new Department will feature “social workers” / liberals, who are going to lose their lives confronting criminals. The “educated idiots and useful idiots”, who in the end, destroy society, communist Democrats.
The response to this will likely be to empower these “social workers” with weapons, and unilateral authority to judge and punish people at their own discretion, to protect the lives of these Gestapo employees.
Wil that empowerment take the form of “They are the only ones authorized to carry firearms and pepper spray/mace”?
If you are a career criminal, move to minneapolis. Business will be very good in the near future.
TILL NO ONE SANE is left living there!
if you are white you better move out of this hell hole of liberal morons now.
The entire MPD needs to take a four-day weekend. What’s left of the city would be happy to have them back, and maybe they could put an end to this insanity.
MAKE it a year long vacation, and you’ve got a deal!
Criminals are really peaceful and loving people by today’s standards, but sometimes they just do things, you know. Well, hopefully, the council people will dig a big enough hole that they will all fit in.
Only if we can then TOP the hole off with a massive cement block!