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While it remains to be seen where those efforts to vastly reimagine public safety will land, an MPR News survey of Minneapolis council members show that there’s still significant common ground among them for changing the city’s relationship with the Police Department, including transferring police responsibilities to social workers, leaving police to focus on responding to and investigating crime. 

While it remains to be seen where those efforts to vastly reimagine public safety will land, an MPR News survey of Minneapolis council members show that there’s still significant common ground among them for changing the city’s relationship with the Police Department, including transferring police responsibilities to social workers, leaving police to focus on responding to and investigating crime. MPR News reporters Brandt Williams and Jon Collins provide an update during All Things Considered.

After pledging to defund police, Mpls. City Council still rethinking public safety

Minneapolis City Council members discuss defunding police department

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Minneapolis City Council members' responses to the MPR News survey.

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After pledging to defund police, Mpls. City Council still rethinking public safety

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