what it does is it makes it possible to expand it so that it becomes the department of public safety so you can add other qualified professionals to it. >> reporter: they hope the new department will include things like mental health professionals and violence prevention counselors, but the ballot question doesn't include specifics that could only be hammered out if it passes. and after the newly elected mayor and city council are sworn in. >> there is too much at stake to just say, we'll vote for this, and vote for what? >> reporter: cheeto wilson owns a minneapolis barbershop and said he witnessed the police killing of jamar clark, a black man in 2015. >> even after witnessing a police killing, after living here in minneapolis through all that happened around the murder of george floyd, you still feel the right way to go is vote no. >> it sounds like an experiment. they have not been able to flush out from top to bottom what this department of public safety is going to look like. to just say, hey, you know, just