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Citing City Charter, Judge Orders Minneapolis to Hire More Police Officers Alberto Luperon Minneapolis Police amid protest over fatal police shooting of Winston Boogie Smith. A judge ruled Thursday that the City of Minneapolis must add more officers to its police force because numbers dipped below those mandated by a municipal charter. Under the law, the city council must fund a police force of at least 0.0017 employees per resident. With the estimated city population in 2019 at around 429,606, that means there have to be at least 730.33 officers, according to the ruling from Minnesota District Court Judge Jamie L. Anderson. The judge said that both sides of the case agreed that the MPD would be on pace to only have 649 sworn officers next January 1st, only 637 by April 1 of next year, 669 officers on June 1, 2022, and 721 on January 1, 2023. ....
Former Minneapolis police officer Steve Dykstra on violent crime spiking in the city after George Floyd’s death. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey admitted the city has a shortage of police officers Friday, a day after a judge ruled the city needs to hire more cops by June of next year, according to reports. Frey called the high rate of attrition problematic and promised the city will focus on recruitment to bulk up the numbers, FOX 9 in Minneapolis reported. Hennepin County District Judge Jamie L. Anderson said the city needs to have at least 730 officers by June 30, 2022, or .2% of the population, in a decision over a lawsuit brought by the conservative Upper Midwest Law Center. The city is currently expected to have about 669 officers by next June. ....
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