Should Minneapolis Eliminate the Office of Community Safety? (w/Jamison Whiting)
A conversation with Council Member Jamison Whiting about the Minneapolis City Council's vote to eliminate the Office of Community Safety. OCS was created in 2022 in the wake of an election where the city's voters rejected one charter amendment calling for the creation of a Department of Public Safety and approved another amendment giving Jacob Frey strong mayor powers. Whiting says getting rid of OCS would short-circuit the city's efforts at providing alternative responses to police, and would concentrate too much control of public safety in a mayor's office that doesn't have the bandwidth to…
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