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America Wanted a Reckoning Over Racist Policing. Five Years Later, Here’s What Has Happened.
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On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis. The event sparked nationwide protests calling for a reckoning over racist policing. City leaders were promising “to end policing as we know it.”
In the years since, the city of Minneapolis has tried a number of reforms. There was a push to change the city’s charter to eliminate the police department, which failed. But some initiatives have succeeded.
On a recent episode of What Next, host Mary Harris spoke to Minnesota Public Radio’s Brandt Williams about what policies have changed in Minneapolis since George Floyd’s murder. This transcript has been edited and condensed for clarity.
Mary Harris: Since George Floyd’s murder, has the police force gotten smaller?
Brandt Williams: The police force has gotten smaller, but not because the council cut funding for them. The budgets for the police department have remained either relatively stable or increased over the years.
Several hundred officers have left since 2020. Many of them retired, but also a lot of them took workers’ compensation claims based on reports of PTSD and left.
The department is in the process of rebuilding. But their decrease in numbers had........
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