{"id":117567,"date":"2021-09-17T12:50:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T16:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=117567"},"modified":"2021-09-17T12:35:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T16:35:04","slug":"minneapolis-voters-cleared-to-vote-yes-or-no-on-measure-to-abolish-police-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=117567","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis voters cleared to vote “yes” or “no” on measure to abolish police department"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Minnesota’s Supreme Court struck down a lower Minnesota court’s ruling over a ballot measure allowing citizens to decide on whether to abolish the police department or not. If the majority of the voters decide to abolish the department, the city would have minimal police staffing. The police department will be replaced by another one focusing on safety while leveraging multiple “public-health” approaches.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/span><\/p>\n

The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that voters in Minneapolis may decide on whether or not to abolish the police department in the upcoming municipal elections.<\/p>\n

“We’re incredibly thrilled that the people of Minneapolis have their democracy honored,” JaNa\u00e9 Bates, a spokeswoman for Yes 4 Minneapolis, which wrote the proposal, told the Star Tribune. “The Supreme Court recognized that we were on the right side of the law, we were on the right side of democracy, and we’re going to be [on] the right side of history as we move forward.”<\/p>\n

If passed, the measure would do away with the Minneapolis charter requirement to have a police department with a minimum level of staffing. Minneapolis would instead replace the police department with a public safety department “that employs a comprehensive public health approach.”<\/p>\n

“A case with this many motions, and this many ups and downs usually takes 12 months. There’s little time in the course of this to feel exhilaration when we won or disappointment when we lost, because there was always more to do,” said Terrance W. Moore, an attorney for Yes 4 Minneapolis. “We felt it was important to be resilient and follow the course of the law and the course of the process and, ugly as it was, the process worked.”<\/p>\n

The state’s Supreme Court overturned a lower court’s ruling that rejected ballot language for not sufficiently describing the measure’s effects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News has additional details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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