Even the former head of the local NAACP came out against a ballot proposal to replace the existing police force with a Department of Public Safety.
When I spoke to Jacob Frey, that moment where he was shamed by the protesters became almost a symbol to him of how he sticks to his principles even when he gets heat, especially from the left. That’s a theme that he brought up over and over in his campaign, where he was framing himself as the reasonable candidate, the candidate of stability.
So the Minneapolis City Council has budgetary control over the Minneapolis police. But the city’s charter—which they were trying to change with this ballot question—gives the mayor complete control over the police, essentially. Frey is the head of the police, and a lot of advocates for this ballot question argued like,
What use is it renaming the Minneapolis police? We have to up structures of actual accountability and so the police actually change How is this coalition reaching out to Black people and actually addressing this concern that people have about shootings and violent crime?Your news organization did a poll and found 75 percent of Minneapolis’ Black likely voters opposed reducing the police force. That seems like a big hurdle for this ballot question to get over.
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