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Listed below are links to articles describing the action the City Council of Minneapolis took to disband the police force and the public safety system that will be replacing it.
1. Source: TheGuardian
"In Minneapolis and in cities across the US, it is clear that our system of policing is not keeping our communities safe. Our efforts at incremental reform have failed, period. Our commitment is to do what’s necessary to keep every single member of our community safe and to tell the truth: that the Minneapolis police are not doing that. Our commitment is to end policing as we know it and to recreate systems of public safety that actually keep us safe." (Lisa Bender, TheGuardian)
2. Source: TheGuardian (2nd article)
"Police would be demilitarized, removingthe armored vehicles, high-powered weapons and teargasused against protesters during the outcry over Floyd’s death" (Oliver Milman, TheGuardian)
"Council members in New York, however, are pushing for a deeper rethink of policing, including a $1bn divestment of the NYPD." (Milman, TheGuardian)
"Some cities have attempted deeper reforms, such as Camden in New Jersey, once considered the most dangerous in America.
Camden made a shift to community-based policing in 2013, dissolving the local police department and using police from the local county instead. Daily non-crisis interactions between police and the community went up, training on de-escalating situations was rolled out, and firm rules on using force as a very last resort – virtually unheard of in the US – were installed. Officers are also required to intervene if a colleague breaks these edicts.
The result has been stark – complaints over excessive police force in Camden have dropped 95% since 2014. But expanding these reforms across the US’s 18,000 police forces is a major challenge due to widespread resistance to change from pro-police legislators and powerful police unions." (Milman, TheGuardian)
3. Source: NyMag
"Though the council members insisted they were 'taking immediate steps toward ending' the MDP, it’s not yet clear what the process will entail, how long it will take, or what the end result will be for the city of 431,000 people. The group offered no timetable or specifics about what it would do. One council member said it would 'abolish the Minneapolis Police system as we know it.' Another said the goal was to end policing as we know it and re-create systems that actually keep us safe." (Chas Danner, NyMag)
"On Sunday morning in New York City, embattled Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged to reallocate some of the NYPD’s $6 billion budget to youth initiatives and social services — though he did not offer specifics." (Danner, NyMag)
4. Source: NYTimes
"Council members said in interviews on Sunday that they did not yet have specific plans to announce for what a new public safety system for the city would look like. They promised to develop plans by working with the community, and said they would draw on past studies, consent decrees and reforms to policing across the nation and the world." (Dionne Searcey and John Eligon, NYTimes)
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