Survey: Non-white residents feel MPD officers not held accountable for misconduct
Recent news investigations have found complaints against officers don t often lead to discipline.
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Many non-white residents believe that officers in the Minneapolis Police Department are not held accountable for their misconduct, a new survey says.
The survey, conducted by the Leadership Conference Education Fund in the months before and after George Floyd s May 25 death during his arrest by now-former MPD officers, found nearly 75% of Black respondents don t believe Minneapolis officers face accountability for misconduct.
Meanwhile, 56.3% of Native Americans and 54.7% of Latinos surveyed said officers weren t held accountable for misconduct, according to the survey, which involved 498 respondents who identified as Black, Native American or Latino.