Metro Transit is ramping up security as riders return Metro Transit is adding more police, community service officers. July 15, 2021 12:01am Text size Copy shortlink:
Metro Transit plans to add police officers and more than triple its number of community service officers to ensure that passengers feel safe while taking Twin Cities public transportation, especially light rail.
The initiative, to be announced Thursday, involves hiring 50 additional community service officers college students enrolled in law enforcement programs to work in tandem with Metro Transit police on buses and trains and at stations and bus stops throughout the metro area.
Another 15 police officers will be hired, as well as additional personnel to monitor activity on the system in real time from a central command post in Minneapolis.
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Black chiefs reflect on Floyd impact on policing
Minnesota s Black police chiefs discussed the state of community relations with law enforcement in the nine months since George Floyd died in custody Author: John Croman Updated: 8:17 PM CST March 5, 2021
ST PAUL, Minn. The death of George Floyd during an arrest last Memorial Day reverberated across the planet. It also changed how many law enforcement agencies approach policing in communities already traumatized by the effects of systemic, historic racism. May 25 has changed the role of policing and conversations about race, Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradando said Friday during a panel discussion features Minnesota s Black police chiefs.
A few of the Gov. Tim Walz’s most recent board appointments caught our eye. We thought we’d fill you in.
Court of Appeals Judge Louise Dovre Bjorkman has been appointed to another term on the Board of Judicial Standards. That’s the state agency that responds to conduct complaints about state court judges.
Her new term is effective on March 1 and expires on Jan. 6, 2025.
To the same board, the governor appointed as a public member Scott Sakaguchi, an Edina physician. Sakaguchi is a professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School’s Cardiovascular Division. A new appointee, his term also begins on March 1 and ends on Jan. 6, 2025.