Is Minneapolis a 'Secret Bellwether' for Understanding Policing and Race in America? The Minneapolis Reckoning shows why calls to defund the police gained momentum after George Floyd's death and why voters with no love for the cops still rejected an abolitionist ballot measure. 05/25/2024 - 11:59 pm | View Link
4 years since George Floyd's death, the Minneapolis police force has made some changes A conversation from Minneapolis about what's changed and what's not since George Floyd was killed by police officers four years ago. 05/25/2024 - 1:17 am | View Link
Minneapolis politics post-George Floyd: Four years later, what's changed? The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police, all eyes were on the city as a model of change. But did anything substantive happen? 05/24/2024 - 10:02 pm | View Link
The Minneapolis Police Department Is Dismantling Itself Of course, as we know from the vantage point of 2024, Minneapolis did not defund, dismantle, or abolish its Police Department. Indeed, the Minneapolis Police Department budget has grown, from $181 ... 05/23/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
‘The Minneapolis Reckoning:’ New book traces the city’s journey to the brink of police reform Four years ago this week, a movement to defund and abolish the Minneapolis Police Department ignited across the city and the world. In those four years since George Floyd’s murder, everything — and ... 05/22/2024 - 3:00 am | View Link