I don't understand this. I can't find anything of a plan before this was voted. Wonder if like Houston has their Harris County Officers, Minneapolis has the same that would take over? Either way I would be looking to move if I lived in the city without a plan from city council.
Not sure why we are thinking to disband police departments. We need to educate and train more. Not sure disbanding does anything. My mind can be swayed though.
Drill down on funding, sure. Disband? You really want to tell an American city that the citizens need to be prepared to defend themselves from any potential crime? I mean, we’re not a fearful or paranoid people or anything.
Bender says that the council will start a conversation with its residents about what a new, "community-led" system will look like. Based on what I know from watching Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol it's going to get wacky and wild. No bad outcomes here. Top tier entertainment, possible problems from skateboard punks tho.
I am thinking the intention of this plan is to get around the police union, which has been extremely resistant to the police chief's attempt at reform in recent years. According to the reports, it's not like the city council wants to have no law enforcement, but rather design and build a new department handling public safety from the ground up. Getting rid of the existing MPD, firing everyone and building and hiring people for a new department from the ground up would mean that they can both hire only the people that they want from the existing police force (and from outside the current police force), and those employees would have to form a new union if they choose to. Now, I think it's gonna ultimately be an issue about the employment market--are the employees they want to hire available to work for this new department at the price the city is willing to pay?
Just thinking quickly I think there needs to be less police officers In general. They need to be held to higher standards. The police officers that remain should be paid a higher salary. I’ve seen too many of them have to work side jobs on the weekend working security. That is just on idea. A broad one. I don’t know though if that makes total sense though or is right. Just an idea
I've been trying to understand this. I think it may be similar to what Camden, NJ did- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...den-new-jersey-reformed-its-police-department
MPD should beat them to the punch. Go on strike and let the city burn. Wait for them to beg for you to come back.
Exactly. Disband means disband & reconstitute Please please throw us in that briar patch. Please quit, cops who like brutality. If it's the whole force, it's the whole force Get the **** out. Millions And millions of Americans just self enforced an extremely painful 3 month stay at home order, at great cost. Who did this, a bunch of crew cut clowns with pepper spray and riot shields? No. Police aren't as vital as they pretend to be, that much is clear now, and the bad ones are net negative. They should all quit and deliver packages if they want to be more useful and protect and serve.
I have to see the nuts and bolts of it all before I have an opinion. The idea is to have a smaller police force with the funds being spent on crime prevention and addressing community issues. Either way, this is the first real attempt at substantive change I have seen.
Would not happen. The city could just train and hire a new police force that doesn’t try to kill people.
but that is not something that just happens over night. I would imagine if the police force of any city goes on strike things would get pretty rough.
