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[DaShuckster]

The tweet — and especially this thread’s BS headline — is deceiving. The proposal is for the department to be expanded, renamed, and reconstituted. The notion the city’s police department is being ‘replaced’ is utter nonsense.

 

[sk8knight]

The tweet — and especially this thread’s BS headline — is deceiving. The proposal is for the department to be expanded, renamed, and reconstituted. The notion the city’s police department is being ‘replaced’ is utter nonsense.

Here is the actual text of the resolution: “Shall the Minneapolis City Charter be amended to strike and replace the Police Department with a Department of Public Safety that employs a comprehensive public health approach, and which would include licensed peace officers (police officers) if necessary to fulfill its responsibilities for public safety, with the general nature of the amendments being briefly indicated in the explanatory note below, which is made a part of this ballot? Yes _______ No _______”

They are not expanding the police department. The composition of the DPS is anyone’s guess.

 

[DaShuckster]

Here is the actual text of the resolution: “Shall the Minneapolis City Charter be amended to strike and replace the Police Department with a Department of Public Safety that employs a comprehensive public health approach, and which would include licensed peace officers (police officers) if necessary to fulfill its responsibilities for public safety, with the general nature of the amendments being briefly indicated in the explanatory note below, which is made a part of this ballot? Yes _______ No _______”

They are not expanding the police department. The composition of the DPS is anyone’s guess.

Here's what that resolution above actually means:

• It will establish a new department of public safety to integrate and oversee a continuum of public safety efforts, including the police.
• It removes the Police Department as a charter department and replaces it (lock, stock, and barrel) as a new Division of Law Enforcement reporting through the new Public Safety dept.

Basically, this is a change in the reporting lines in the city's administration. As I stated before -- and continue to say -- the notion that the city is...gasp!..GETTING RID OF the Minneapolis police department is total nonsense.

Minneapolis City Council's charter amendment to replace MPD with new department of public safety moves forward

The Minneapolis City Council voted on Friday to send the Transforming Public Safety Charter Amendment to the city's Charter Commission to review...

kstp.com

 

[Crazyhole]

Something about the "Department of Public Safety" sounds pretty Nazi-like to me.