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Minneapolis police suffer from historically low staffing shortages: ‘Not sustainable’
NY Post ^ | 09/19/2023 | Hanna Panreck

Posted on 09/19/2023 5:11:15 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The Minneapolis Police Department is suffering from historically low staffing shortages as they deal with the lowest level of uniformed personnel in four decades, according to the Star Tribune.

The city’s department has just 585 sworn officers and out of 22 cities, it has the lowest ratio of officers to population, the Tribune reported.

The Minneapolis police department has also leaned on other law enforcement partners as well as civilian analysts to help out with some of their work.

Over the past few years, Minneapolis has experienced the worst of the police staffing shortages in the US.

“This is absolutely not sustainable,” Minneapolis police Chief Brian O’Hara told the outlet. “Thank God for all these other agencies that are filling this gap.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: minneapolis; police; shortages; staffing
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Hmm I wonder why??? Anything to do with riots??
1 posted on 09/19/2023 5:11:16 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Who in their right mind would want to work for them?


2 posted on 09/19/2023 5:12:28 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Lots of Somali pirates to be hired. Sharia cops.


3 posted on 09/19/2023 5:12:54 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s not the riots so much as the political leadership. When the local mayor, council, and DA all are on a “police are evil” political joyride, who in their right mind would want to be a cop in that environment? Especially when any decent cops can easily get jobs in more cop-friendly locales.


4 posted on 09/19/2023 5:14:48 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: dfwgator

this is also part of the lefts plan — make the situation so bad so that good people wont want to become cops.

just like they are doing to the military and many other institutions.

it’s not that hard to get a militarized force with no morals or values to do all sorts of terrible things.....

one only needs to watch the video of those 5 Memphis LEO’s beating that “boy” to death.


5 posted on 09/19/2023 5:16:40 AM PDT by Jaysin (Trump can’t be beat, unless the democrats cheat)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Eat it.


6 posted on 09/19/2023 5:18:59 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Let the Democrats in Minneapolis send their own sons and daughters to the police academy.

Go right down the list of Democrat voter rolls to send them applications.

7 posted on 09/19/2023 5:22:25 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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this is also part of the lefts plan

/echo

8 posted on 09/19/2023 5:22:43 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Socialism should more accurately be called Sociopathism)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Related thread:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4183414/posts

“Black Lives Matter Protests Led to Fewer Police Killings, More Murders: Study”


9 posted on 09/19/2023 5:23:54 AM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: FreedomPoster

If you listen to fools THE MOB RULES - Black Sabbath.


10 posted on 09/19/2023 5:36:59 AM PDT by Ikeon (Dont like what you see? then look away. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Lawsuits, getting murdered, getting defunded - what is not to love about that job???


11 posted on 09/19/2023 5:39:19 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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and their civilian oversight board that effectively runs the department with their “recommendations” has proposed fixing the problem with this:

“Other recommendations include mandatory annual mental health screenings; returning the responsibility of discipline and termination back to the mayor rather than the police chief; and tougher eligibility requirements for field training officers by adding a definition of what a “good standing” officer means.”

yeah, that’s gonna make a lot more folks to want to sign up as police officers ... you know, to take the place of even MORE officers resigning because of those new burdens ...


12 posted on 09/19/2023 5:49:49 AM PDT by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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Minneapolis needs fewer police anyway since the rioters burned down so many businesses and those businesses aren't rebuilding.

'Minneapolis before and after the “mostly peaceful” BLM riots:'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI8pBtpRGKc

13 posted on 09/19/2023 5:50:20 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: FreedomPoster

The guys at PowerLine Blog live in the Minneapolis and frequently write about the socialist pathologies there. I did a lot of business trips to Minneapolis in the 80s and it was a great place back then. They had a peaceful, law-abiding city with a small police force.

It is “Exhibit A” in radical leftist destruction (tied with Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, etc).


14 posted on 09/19/2023 6:05:59 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: HYPOCRACY

I expect primarily muslims will be hired and they will go out and murder as many white women with blond hair as they can.


15 posted on 09/19/2023 6:17:57 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hey, maybe Beijing Benedict Biden will invite the UN to send in troops to maintain law and order in the US today when he visits them. If they then ask you to surrender your firearms just remember it is only to keep you safe.


16 posted on 09/19/2023 6:21:46 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: HYPOCRACY

Sharia cops with no holds barred, in the name of whom cannot be spoken. It would an interesting experiment, but then so would exportation.


17 posted on 09/19/2023 6:27:43 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Let the cities burn, better for everyone else.


18 posted on 09/19/2023 6:34:40 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: ChicagoConservative27

good. The other cops should leave for more cop friendly states. Let the big liberal cities burn


19 posted on 09/19/2023 6:42:11 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Fire them all and hire social workers. You know, for equity. It’s the progressive way.


20 posted on 09/19/2023 6:46:56 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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