The Minneapolis City Council voted 12 to 1 on Friday to place a petition on the November ballot to wipe out Minneapolis’ police force, replacing it with a department of public safety.  As previously reported by Human Events News, a new political committee called Yes 4 Minneapolis gathered signatures to put a question on the November […]
  • @nour
    5•3 years ago

    The proposal doesn’t propose to wipe out the police force, they want to relegate some of the police’s tasks onto a department. Under the clickbaity headline, the article even admits it:

    replace the police department with a new public safety department focused on a “comprehensive public safety approach” that would include officers “if necessary to fulfill the department’s responsibilities.”

    • @Slatlun@lemmy.ml
      4•3 years ago

      Ah, a source issue. Most reports use ‘replace’ instead of ‘wipe out’. Like you say the details of the article are accurate with a headline to grab folks that weren’t already following it.