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Minneapolis Will Dismantle Its Police Force, Council Members Pledge

Saying the existing Police Department cannot be reformed, a majority of the City Council has promised to rethink public safety from the ground up in the wake of George Floyd’s killing.

Officials in other cities, including New York, have begun to talk of diverting some money and responsibilities from police forces to social services agencies, but no other major city has gone as far in reaction to the protests as the Minneapolis officials have promised to do.

Protesters’ cries to defund or abolish the police are often not meant literally. Rather, they are demands to rethink a law enforcement system from the ground up and to grapple with deeply ingrained issues, including employing officers who do not live in the city they police — as is done in Minneapolis — and sending armed officers to respond to situations that turn out not to be crimes, as when a mentally ill person is in distress.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/us/minneapolis-police-abolish.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20200608&instance_id=19177&nl=the-morning®i_id=99579372&segment_id=30343&te=1&user_id=662f275c81c671e62bb60164c6d2d88f

 

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