11/15/2023 0 Comments Rising wedge pattern youtube![]() ![]() But if the system still fails to act on the most obvious warning signs, what else are they letting get past them?įrey: "One thing I know for certain is that officers that have stuck around… they are really committed to this change. The thing they have sold harder than anything: Remaking a police department full of officers who are “here for the right reasons,” and want do do their jobs in ways that build trust and won’t get people killed. It’s the most important promise Frey and his public safety apparatus have made to the public since the last election. ![]() In Minneapolis, police stories where nobody is maimed or killed tend to feel like a minor scandal. When MPD offered him the job, Storlie turned it down, following his ex-wife’s advice: “someone’s going to find out who you are.” ![]() Then there’s ex-MPD officer Charles Storlie, who was nearly re-hired earlier this year as a civilian investigator despite warning MPD repeatedly about the multiple high-profile, very google-able incidents when he’d shot people (I repeat: he warned them they should be careful about hiring him!). Most notably, MPD hired a former Virginia police officer named Tyler Timberlake, who left his previous job after being prosecuted for a high-profile case of brutality, and denounced in the strongest possible terms by his former chief. More than three years after George Floyd was murdered by an officer whose history had all the red flags his superiors needed to see it coming, MPD is ignoring big waving red flags in their hiring practices. Whether you believe our “police problem” is the pattern of racist practices that made MPD the target of state and federal investigations for racism and brutality or you say our police problem is that we don’t have a functioning department or that we don’t have enough police or that the city still lacks well-integrated alternatives to armed police. The real existential question for this city remains: Does any of this mean we’re meaningfully addressing our police problem? I pose that question in the broadest sense. Wake up and smell the trauma of the last few years. Sometimes it feels like I’m falling in love with this city all over again.īut hey, snap out of it. These essential experiences we’d been deprived of for too long are coming back. It’s a question being asked and answered all over the local news: Is Minneapolis back? I’ll be honest, I like big events, people on sidewalks and in the streets, gathering together in ways that make city life so uniquely joyful. ![]()
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