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Minneapolis police review: “No progress has been made”

“The City of Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Police Department remain far from achieving the transformational change necessary to address the root causes of race-based policing” — the Minnesota Department of Human Rights
Mary Moriarty

Part 2: Building Prosecution and Prevention Into Addressing Domestic Violence

“To be honest, people put the resources where their values are, right? Credit to Katie Blackwell, who was adding resources when she had the opportunity. But what does it say when you have only four or five investigators doing all of the domestic violence cases in the city of Minneapolis?”

Allison Lussier’s Death: Minneapolis City Council Hears Long-Standing Criticism of Police Response to Domestic Violence

The system breakdown impacted Allison Lussier. On one occasion prior to her death, police were with Lussier and her abuser — after multiple complaints about his conduct and applications for orders for protection — but police allowed him to leave the scene without detention or arrest. 

COMMENTARY: Five-Year Reflection From House POCI Caucus

As part of our commemoration of the five-year anniversary of…

In Honor of George Floyd, a Community Discussion Was Held in North Minneapolis

“If there was a hospital in Hennepin County that had high rates of infection, we would all be saying, ‘What’s going on in that hospital?’ No one would accuse us of being anti-hospital or anti-doctor because we want to figure out what the problem is."

Officer who killed Daunte Wright is taking her story on the road with help from a former prosecutor

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Minnesota police officer who…
Kelly McCarthy

My View as a Police Chief: A Conversation with Kelly McCarthy

If we’re going to exert any force or pressure, it needs to be on the offender and not on that victim.

VIEW: Tale of Two Cities — Selecting a Police Chief

Particularly in policing, but in every facet of civic life, what we need is to recenter the forming of partnerships as the heart of the activity, as both the means and the end.

Reprint: The Police Are Defunding Minneapolis

The combination of these payouts and police misconduct settlements is approaching $150 million dollars. That’s more than three fourths of what the MPD’s budget was in 2020.

Summary of Hennepin County Attorney Candidate Forum

A summary of the viewpoints of the seven candidates running for Hennepin County attorney general.

Another High Speed Chase Death: A 6-year-old

From Racial Justice Network On Friday, July 15, 2022, Brooklyn…

Public Safety On the Ballot This Year

The League of Women's Voters Minneapolis is creating a series of commentaries related to the 2022 Midterm Elections. This is one of them.