{"id":561060,"date":"2021-06-11T14:21:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T18:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=561060"},"modified":"2021-06-11T14:21:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T18:21:52","slug":"re-fund-the-police-minneapolis-city-council-committee-asks-for-5-million-for-police-to-offset-funding-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/re-fund-the-police-minneapolis-city-council-committee-asks-for-5-million-for-police-to-offset-funding-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Fund The Police: Minneapolis City Council Committee Asks For $5 Million For Police To Offset Funding Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fre-fund-the-police-minneapolis-city-council-committee-asks-for-5-million-for-police-to-offset-funding-cuts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=561060&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/police-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A Minneapolis City Council committee is recommending that the city of Minneapolis release $5 million in overtime funds for the Minneapolis Police Department in order to offset cuts made to law enforcement last year, as the city sinks deeper into a violent crime wave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice Chief Medaria Arradondo told council members the money would help cover a small percentage of the overtime shifts needed amid an officer shortage and costs associated with the trial of former officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of murdering George Floyd,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/minneapolis-city-council-committee-recommends-releasing-5m-for-police-overtime\/600066941\/?refresh=true\">Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Minneapolis city government cut the Minneapolis Police Department budget by several million last year but, according to local media, put aside a \u201crainy day\u201d fund of $5 million in case of unanticipated costs associated with policing the city of Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>The city is now facing twin crises: officers are leaving the department in droves, making staff issues \u201cworse than anticipated\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2021\/02\/04\/mpls-police-staffing-woes-worse-than-anticipated\">per MPR News<\/a>, and violent crime is spiking in the city. Minneapolis saw a 20% increase in violent crime in 2020 and in 2021, rape is 22%, robbery is up 59%, and gun crime is up 250%, <a href=\"https:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2021\/01\/22\/early-2021-minneapolis-crime-stats-show-250-increase-in-gunshot-victims\/\">per the city\u2019s CBS affiliate<\/a>, with nearly 150 fewer officers on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Police Department began 2020 with roughly 850 officers available to work and a $193 million budget. Following a flurry of officer retirements, resignations, and PTSD claims, the city estimates it will have about 627 officers available to work at the end of this month,\u201d according to the Star-Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year, after the city made across-the-board cuts to account for the pandemic\u2019s damage to the economy, Mayor Jacob Frey pitched a roughly $179 million budget for the Police Department,\u201d the outlet continued, outlining the MPD\u2019s current budget. \u201cThe City Council moved an additional $8 million to other programs \u2014 with a caveat. It also created a new reserve fund that would include $5 million for police overtime, if the council approved its release in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Minneapolis Police Department says it needs that money \u2014 and probably more. \u201cRobin McPherson, the department\u2019s finance director, told council members it had spent $5.2 million on police overtime this year, including $2.9 million that covered wages for Operation Safety Net, the multiagency group that coordinated security for Chauvin\u2019s trial. McPherson estimated the department will spend $4.3 million more to cover overtime for the rest of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Minneapolis, where George Floyd died while in the custody of Minneapolis police, setting off a national anti-police brutality and anti-racism movement, pledged, at one point last summer, to completely abolish its own police department \u2014 a plan that has since \u201csoftened,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/05\/25\/1000298293\/a-year-after-george-floyds-death-plans-for-minneapolis-police-reform-have-soften\">National Public Radio said<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThirteen days after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd, nine city council members\u00a0stood on a stage at Powderhorn Park. At their feet were giant block letters that spelled out the words \u2018defund police,&#8217;\u201d NPR said.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s charter committee put a halt to that plan, demanding that the city come up with some replacement for the law enforcement required by the Minneapolis city charter. A new plan, authored in January, suggested a skeleton police department, but that seems to have fallen by the wayside as well. Minneapolis\u2019 Mayor Jacob Frey is now pushing \u201creform,\u201d though that plan is also without specifics.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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