The future of the Minneapolis Police Department may be decided on Tuesday.
The charter amendment would replace the police chief with a commissioner nominated by the mayor and approved by the City Council. By state law, the charter amendment would go into effect 30 days after it passes.
"Question two is about are we locked into our current system of public safety, this police only model," he said."Are we locked into this model, that's what voting no does, or do we have an ability to transform public safety into the future? That's what a yes does." "It will not eliminate tragic incidents between police and community from ever occurring in our city," he said."It will not suddenly change the culture of the police department that has been in existence for 155 years."
"I think policing needs to be radically reformed, and they're proposing this charter amendment like it's a radical change to policing, but how can you say that you haven't told us what that means," he said."What's going to be in this Department of Public Safety?"
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