Nine members — a veto-proof majority — of the Minneapolis City Council pledged on Sunday to dismantle the city’s Police Department, promising to create a new system of public safety in a city where law enforcement has long been accused of racism.
Saying that the city’s current policing system could not be reformed, the council members stood before hundreds of people who gathered late in the day on a grassy hill, and signed a pledge to begin the process of taking apart the Police Department as it now exists.
For activists who have been pushing for years for drastic changes to policing, the move represented a turning point that they hoped would lead to a complete transformation of public safety in the city…
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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 yet gone as far as the Minneapolis officials promised to do.
Council members said in interviews on Sunday that they did not have specific plans to announce for what a new public safety system for the city would look like….
Note…
Police Department’s can only be organised in certain ways…
They must follow state and federal rules and regulations…
In the past?
Reorganisations have been more of changing leadership, which have changed department cultures…
In the past ex-FBI agent’s and even judges have been put in place…Also in some cases back in the day the Fed’s have taken over and put in place their person in leadership …This was ONLY done by Democratic Justice Dept.’s….