Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Sunday reiterated that he doesn't support abolishing the city's police force, hours after a veto-proof majority of members of the Minneapolis City Council said they want to take that drastic step in the wake of the in-custody death of George Floyd.
"Our commitment is to end our city's toxic relationship with the Minneapolis Police Department," Bender said. "It is clear that our system of policing is not keeping our communities safe. Our efforts at incremental reform have failed, period."
Bender went on to say she and the eight other council members that joined the rally were committed to ending the city’s relationship with the police force and "to end policing as we know it and recreate systems that actually keep us safe."Nationally, efforts to defund the police have been broadly unpopular, with only abouthas happened before
. In 2012, with crime rampant in Camden, New Jersey, the city disbanded its police department and replaced it with a new force that covered Camden County. Compton, California, took the same step in 2000, shifting its policing to Los Angeles County. It was a step that then-Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department was considering for Ferguson, Missouri, after the death of Michael Brown.The city eventually reached an agreement short of that but one that required massive reforms overseen by a court-appointed mediator.
The move to defund or abolish the Minneapolis department is far from assured, with the civil rights investigation likely to unfold over the next several months.Gregg Re is a lawyer and editor based in Los Angeles. Follow him on TwitterGet all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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