Created: July 15, 2021 10:14 AM
The extensive, federal civil rights investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department is expected to take months to finish, but people who've been through the process warn the reform efforts that could follow are long, drawn-out endeavors that cost millions of dollars over time.
The "pattern and practice" investigation, launched in April by the United States Department of Justice, will examine issues with discriminatory policing, use of force and other systematic problems within MPD.
A decade ago, the feds launched a similar investigation into the police department in Albuquerque, New Mexico and found that officers routinely used excessive and deadly force against its citizens.