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Home Front: Politix

Minneapolis mayor, incoming interim chief plan to hire more officers

2022-01-07

[STARTRIBUNE] Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey
...The inept and ineffective (but I repeat myself) Dem ~~class president~~ mayor of Minneapolis during the George Floyd race riots. Frey issued the order for police to evacuate the Third Precinct so it could safely be burned to the ground, and has since dithered, waffled, and obfuscated on a near daily basis. The city is a Dem stronghold, so he'll probably be reelected...
and incoming interim Police Chief Amelia Huffman rolled out a new crime-fighting plan Wednesday that calls for hiring dozens of coppers, expanding partnerships with other law enforcement agencies and beefing up units focused on investigating ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful robberies and carjackings.At a City Hall news conference, Frey said the department plans to hire five recruit classes to help close a staffing gap created by the departures of hundreds of officers since the murder of St. George Floyd

...the patron saint of Minneapolis, a sterling example for our children and indeed for us all. St. George was martyed by the Devil's agents in blue while standing on a street corner preaching tolerance and racial justice or something like that...
in the spring of 2020. For now, the mayor said, the department was directing its resources to areas that need it most, including assigning officers to neighborhoods where stolen vehicles are frequently abandoned.

"It's clear that ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful crime and the fear of ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful crime is hurting our city," Huffman said. "In fact, it's hurting our entire metro area."

Frey's comments came two months after a Minneapolis election in which voters rejected a ballot measure that would have replaced the Police Department with an agency that would take more of a public health approach to crime prevention.

Since the start of 2020, the department has lost roughly 300 officers, creating significant staffing shortages. Whether the department should return to its size in early 2020, when it had about 888 officers, is sure to be hotly debated in the coming months. The Minneapolis charter sets a minimum requirement for staffing based on population levels, abut 715 total employees.

Though the Nov. 2 ballot measure was defeated, proponents argued that the campaign around Question 2, as the proposal was called, changed the conversation around policing. More people, they argued, were open to consider alternative strategies for keeping communities safe beyond traditional law enforcement.

David Bicking of the advocacy group Communities United Against Policy Brutality said any move to hire more officers should be based on "best practices and research nationwide" and not be a "knee-jerk" reaction to rising crime.

A study examining patrol officers' workloads has been delayed, Bicking said, adding that its findings would have been helpful months ago when city officials were negotiating the budget.

Posted by:Fred

#4 Their appeal became more selective

Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-01-07 16:39

#3 Who in his right mind would apply for a job as a policeman in Minneapolis?

Posted by: Tom 2022-01-07 14:49

#2 Doesn't matter. Too little, too late. The police are hip to them now.

The politicians are like Lucy holding the football. They are waiting for some young suckers to become policemen. Meanwhile the politicians all have ties to the criminals.

Posted by: Spomort Whung2879 2022-01-07 12:15

#1 Doesn't matter. The local pols won't let them do anything, anyway.

Posted by: Mercutio 2022-01-07 09:26

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