President-elect Donald Trump was critical of consent decrees as anti-police. Finalizing the Minneapolis agreement before he returns to office on January 20 would make it harder for him to undercut the ...

The Minneapolis City Council plans to vote on an ordinance that would charge fees to city police officers who participate in off-duty work.

that will invoke mass reform within the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). The vote comes nearly five years after the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white Minneapolis police officer ...

Minneapolis council members are moving to increase oversight of off-duty police work, including a fee that the city would ...

City of Minneapolis and Minneapolis Police Department ... the council was expected to reconvene in public in the afternoon for a vote. During his first administration, President-elect Donald ...

The agreement incorporates and builds on changes Minneapolis police have made since former ... Elliott Payne said Monday following the vote. "We're just beginning, and we know we have a long ...

(Council Member Michael Rainville inadvertently missed the vote.) The 170-page document details changes the Minneapolis Police Department must take in the coming years under the supervision of a ...

Minneapolis City Council President Elliott Payne, center, and the other council members vote to go into closed ... decree mandating reforms to the Police Department. (Leila Navidi/The Minnesota ...

FILE - A police officer points a hand cannon at protesters who have been detained pending arrest on South Washington Street in Minneapolis, May 31, 2020, as protests continued following the death ...

The council's brief public vote followed an hourslong closed ... A major reason Minneapolis hired Brian O’Hara as police chief in 2022 was his experience implementing a consent decree in Newark ...