.0017 a place of the police force press resident of minneapolis, 743 licensed peace officers pursuant to a city charter. the current number is 6:30 four or fewer. they say they are not keeping up with the city charter to keep enough officers on board to keep the city safe. >> yeah, the problem and the plaintiff's complaint -- think about it -- they are going to have a major issue as this case moves forward that the city council is provided the funding, is taxing per the city charter, and the city charter leaves it up to the mayor who has the authority to make higher fire at decisions. and again, the word employ is not there. it doesn't mean that there aren't genuine concerns here. this just isn't the right approach. i don't think it succeeds. >> shannon: there is a memo out there, one of the legal groups involved with this, has put this memo online for they say it comes from marek nelson last august when they were in this conversation he was the interim city attorney at the time and he said what ethan