Enough Is Enough: A 150 Year Review of the Minneapolis Police Department

The What If? Podcast

Spencer Wirth-Davis & Ryan Kopperud

Society & Culture

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Hi friends! Today we're sharing MPD150's Enough Is Enough report.

Enough is Enough! That is both the conclusion and the title of this report, a 150-year performance review of the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). The report is the product of an investigation into the conduct of the department over the fifteen decades since its founding in 1867. It includes a survey of its current role and impact, especially on marginalized communities, and an exploration of viable alternatives to the policing model. With this report, we hope to take the idea of police-free communities out of the realm of fantasy and place it firmly in the public agenda as a practical necessity.

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0:00.0	Hey, y'all.
0:01.0	We got a little surprise for you this week.
0:04.0	Hi.
0:04.5	That's Ryan.
0:05.6	Hashtag extra content.
0:08.0	Hashtag content.
0:08.7	Yeah.
0:10.2	So we want to share MPD 150's Enough is Enough Report that we've referenced a couple times on the show now in audio form with you because it exists
0:23.5	and it's relevant to some of the conversations we've been having and it's really well done and a
0:28.7	good listen yeah you guys have asked a lot of questions around this topic and like we said
0:33.3	people have been engaging on socials and stuff with us asking some of these questions,
0:39.0	engaging in the Facebook community around some of the stuff that we've been talking about.
0:43.1	And yeah, so we figured this would be a good way to kind of give it out to everybody.
0:49.1	We're not taking the place of a normal episode.
0:50.7	We're just sort of putting this out there as an additional thing in the feed.
0:54.9	If it's something that interests you, if you're looking to get more information, like Spencer
0:57.9	said, it's just got a lot of answers to frequently ask questions and just some more data
1:03.5	and stuff to kind of get you thinking.
1:05.7	So if it's something that's interesting to you, we encourage you to check it out and give it a listen.
1:13.9	Enough is enough. Enough is enough.
1:16.6	Enough is enough. Enough is enough.
1:20.1	A 150 year performance review.
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