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Minneapolis voters reject a measure to replace the city's police department
Updated November 3, 202112:25 AM ET
Heard on Morning Edition
Martin Kaste 2010

Competing lawn signs are placed outside a polling place Tuesday in
Minneapolis. Voters decided not to replace the city's police department
with a new Department of Public Safety. The election comes more than a
year after George Floyd's death launched a movement to defund or abolish
police across the country.
Christian Monterrosa/AP

Voters in Minneapolis have resoundingly rejected a proposal to reinvent
policing in their city, 17 months after the killing of George Floyd by
police sparked massive protests and calls for change.

Approximately 56% of voters rejected a ballot question that would have
removed the Minneapolis Police Department from the city charter and
replaced it with a "public-health oriented" Department of Public Safety.

The "Yes" campaign conceded defeat in a statement that read, in part,
"We spoke the truth while the opposition, Democrats and Republicans
alike, spread lies and mischaracterized our measure to create confusion,
distrust, and fear. "

Nationally, the vote was seen as a test of the political movement to
"defund" traditional policing as it ran up against concerns about rising
violent crime.

The "defund" movement, which called for shrinking police budgets and
shifting the money to other social purposes, gained ground in the summer
of 2020. A few days after Floyd's murder, most members of the
Minneapolis city council appeared at a "defund" rally.

But as violent crime surged nationally — and in Minneapolis — some of
those same local politicians backed away from the idea. In 2021, the
"Yes" campaign, supported by national left-of-center groups such as the
ACLU and MoveOn.org, also distanced itself from the "police defunding"
label.

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Campaign spokeswoman JaNaé Bates framed the amendment as an "expansion
of public safety." She said the elimination of the traditional
department structure — and the requirement for a minimum number of
police officers — would give the city more flexibility in how it
responds to crime.

"You actually can staff the department the way that meets the needs of
the people," Bates told NPR in October. "We wanted to really be centered
and focused on the safety of human beings."

The "No" campaign — "All of Mpls," funded partly by local business
interests — framed the amendment as a leap in the dark.

"It does not present any sort of plan for what will come after," says
campaign manager Leili Fatehi. "There's no specificity as to what
services [the Department of Public Safety] would provide, what law
enforcement would look like, what residents can expect."

Opponents said it was a dangerous time for that kind of uncertainty as
an exodus of police officers left the Minneapolis Police Department
understaffed, even as the city endured a near-record spike in gun crimes
and homicides.

The two sides jousted over whether traditional police officers would be
part of the new system. The "No" campaign pointed to the language of the
charter amendment, which said the new Department of Public Safety
"could" employ police officers "if necessary."

"Yes" campaigners called the warnings about the disappearance of police
"fear-mongering."

"Police will be part of the city of Minneapolis," Bates said during a
debate in October. "There is a state mandate that overrides anything
that the city sets up, that requires police officers to respond to a
whole series of situations."

The two sides also argued over the police chief, Medaria Arradondo. An
African-American officer who came up through the ranks of the MPD, he's
more popular than most local politicians, and minority groups in the
city see him as a force for reform.

Opponents of the amendment warned that eliminating the office of Chief
of Police would mean losing Arradondo, while proponents said there would
be no reason he couldn't be kept on in the leadership of the new system.

Arradondo roiled the waters last Wednesday when he spoke to the press —
in uniform, and in front of an MPD backdrop — to express his misgivings
about the charter amendment.

"Yes" campaigners criticized the chief for taking sides, drawing an
ethics complaint for using city resources to weigh in on a political matter.

The charter amendment vote also divided Minnesota's Democratic Party.
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and state Attorney General Keith Ellison weighed in
to support it, while U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Gov. Tim Walz opposed it.

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On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 20:10:47 -0700, a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com>
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>Minneapolis voters reject a measure to replace the city's police department
>Updated November 3, 202112:25 AM ET
>Heard on Morning Edition
>Martin Kaste 2010

The problem is that the reactionaries are allowed to vote. We need to
only allow the progressives to vote.

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