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Police watchdog group says Minneapolis uses legal loophole to keep police misconduct from the public Andy Mannix, Star Tribune
One Minneapolis police officer made a reckless turn and caused a preventable car crash.
In a separate case, an officer failed to turn on his body camera while interviewing witnesses at a crime scene.
Another officer used inappropriate language toward a victim of domestic assault and then never wrote a report on the call.
In all of these cases of substantiated rule violations, the officers supervisors opted for the same remedy: coaching.
Coaching is a form of one-on-one mentoring that the Minneapolis Police Department uses to deal with low-level rule violations so low, according to the Minneapolis City Attorney s Office, that it doesn t qualify as real discipline.