Ward 9 Council Member Jason Chavez, a member of last term’s five-member progressive minority, is now the chair of the Public Health and Safety Committee, which is the first stop for any policies ...

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Voters there will decide one of the most controversial issues of the past 18 months, an amendment that would replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a Department of Public Safety. It's not ...

A Hennepin County judge last week dismissed a lawsuit filed by several business owners who argued the city of Minneapolis was ...

As public safety commissioner, he says he'll have a lengthy to-do list. "I've had a view of what's going on that I think might be a little bit different," Barnette said. "We know that police, fire ...

Minneapolis residents voted not to replace the city's police department – which is facing a federal investigation – with a new Department of Public Safety that would have likely included law ...

Minneapolis needs to be a place where rules reign again. When I ran the Medtronic TC 10 Mile race last October, I was struck ...

Problems continue to plague the Minneapolis Community Commission on Police Oversight As of May 9, 72 complaints have been filed against officers in 2024 and 189 cases remain in queue to be ...

On Nov. 2, Minneapolis residents will decide whether to replace the city's police department with a Department of Public Safety.

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The issue is most acute in Minneapolis, where the city has paid out more than $22 million in workers' comp to about 130 officers for PTSD-related claims since the police murder of George Floyd in ...

The authors work at the Policing Project at the N.Y.U. School of Law. The project works with communities and the police to promote public safety. Something important has been happening in American ...