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Like several cities in the United States, 

. Many had hoped Floyd's death and the uprising that followed would lead to significant reform, whether through policy in the halls of government or concessions at the bargaining table. 

More police officers and their employers are settling discipline cases outside of arbitration, a process Minneapolis elected officials have said ties their hands on police accountability.

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“It’s just stunning that a new contract was negotiated and finalized and then approved by the city council that includes absolutely zero changes to the disciplinary process,” he said. “And in a city and state that is the home of a global reckoning on race in the aftermath of that horrific tragedy, it does boggle the mind.”

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 and a past president of SEIU Local 26, which represents commercial building workers in the Twin Cities metro area.

does give the police chief more discretion

 in reassigning officers who are involved in incidents where an officer or civilian is killed or seriously harmed. It also strengthens mental health screening requirements for those officers. But Mayor Jacob Frey said he’d prefer to reform the discipline process in ways that don’t need to be negotiated with the union.

yields some results 

But outside of Minneapolis, police unions have bent on discipline issues. That’s according to 

, a former police officer and labor attorney who 

 that helped police unions gain power nationwide. DeLord said all of the contracts he’s negotiated since 2020 have included changes to officer discipline and improved transparency. 

“But we’re not going ever to reach a stage where 100 percent of police are convicted of a crime when they’re involved in a critical incident, because that’s not realistic and that’s not due process,” DeLord said. “I look to work on, not what people on the outside are screaming is justice, but what justice really should be.”

Both DeLord and Morillo joined MPR News host Tom Crann on Monday to talk about the role police unions play in public safety reform. To hear both perspectives, click play on the audio player above.

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