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Former Minneapolis police officer Steve Dykstra on violent crime spiking in the city after George Floyd’s death. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey admitted the city has a shortage of police officers Friday, a day after a judge ruled the city needs to hire more cops by June of next year, according to reports. Frey called the high rate of attrition problematic and promised the city will focus on recruitment to bulk up the numbers, FOX 9 in Minneapolis reported. Hennepin County District Judge Jamie L. Anderson said the city needs to have at least 730 officers by June 30, 2022, or .2% of the population, in a decision over a lawsuit brought by the conservative Upper Midwest Law Center. The city is currently expected to have about 669 officers by next June. ....
Minnesota Reformer Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo coordinated closely with a group called Operation Safety Now, which was created by a PR consultant, to sway public opinion and the City Council against budget cuts to the Minneapolis police department. The office of Mayor Jacob Frey, seen here in the background, also worked with Operation Safety Now. Photo by Max Nesterak/Minnesota Reformer. Bill Rodriguez was the first speaker at the first public hearing on cutting funding to the Minneapolis Police Department. “We need both: the police and reform,” Rodriguez said at a City Council meeting in November. Variations on that phrase “we need both” were repeated throughout the hearing. It is the signature talking point of Operation Safety Now, the pro-police group Rodriguez founded. ....
The violence, destruction, and unrest that Cedric Powell has witnessed at nine years old is more than some experience in a lifetime. He regularly plays at his grandmother’s house in North Minneapolis in the shadows of barbed wire fencing, operating his remote controlled car pass concrete barriers and feet from a charred parking spot where a police cruiser was set on fire last year. ....
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