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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey unveils police chief search committee

His office expects the search to be completed by summer 2022.

Minneapolis 911 emergency calls averaging 15-minute response time, up 36%

During the first six months of 2020, priority one emergency calls to the Minneapolis dispatch center took an average of 11 minutes from the time the call came in until an officer arrived on the scene. That number has jumped this year.

Minnesota seniors anxious for boosters

Third Precinct in Mpls. served as 'playground' for renegade cops

Copy shortlink: Long before former officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd s neck, the Third Precinct in south Minneapolis had a reputation for being home to police officers who played by their own rules. One officer kicked a handcuffed suspect in the face, leaving his jaw in pieces. Officers beat and pistol-whipped a suspect in a parking lot on suspicion of low-level drug charges. Others harassed residents of a south Minneapolis housing project as they headed to work, and allowed prostitution suspects to touch their genitals for several minutes before arresting them in vice stings. These and more substantiated incidents, detailed in court records and police reports, help explain a saying often used by fellow cops to describe the style of policing practiced in the Third: There s the way that the Minneapolis Police Department does things, and then there s the way they do it in Threes.

Chauvin trial again casts spotlight on MPD's training program