The Future Of Policing In Minneapolis

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🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Minneapolis residents are voting on a ballot measure, Question 2. If it passes, the city’s police department would be replaced with a Department of Public Safety. But despite what some fear-mongers say, this would not actually replace the police and the police are not being defunded. An FDA advisory committee is expected to meet today to discuss Pfizer/BioNTech’s authorization request for a lower dose of its vaccine designed for children 5-11. Children in a trial got two doses of the vaccine, each dose one-third the strength of what adults get. And in headlines: the military staged a coup in Sudan, students at Howard University are protesting the school’s housing conditions, and a federal civil rights trial began against the white supremacists who helped plan a 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Show Notes: Ballotpedia: “Minneapolis, Minnesota, Question 2, Replace Police Department with Department of Public Safety Initiative” – https://bit.ly/3pCbXiJ For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0	It is Tuesday, October 26th. I'm Gideon Resnick. And I'm Josie Duffy Rice. And this is What a Day.
0:11.6	The podcast that bought up all the little plastic spiders at Party City. Yeah, we definitely
0:16.8	made supply chain issues worse by buying a thousand Halloween spiders. And honestly, we don't regret it.
0:22.0	I don't blame us blame Biden for your lack of spiders. This is what you get for electing him.
0:30.9	On today's show, we preview today's FDA panel on vaccines for kids ages 5 to 11,
0:36.3	plus a military coup takes control of Sudan. But first election day of this year is just one
0:42.3	week away. There are many important local state and national races that we're going to keep
0:46.9	talking to you about and revisiting in the coming days. But today, we're going to start with a
0:51.3	potentially historic referendum on police in Minneapolis. So Josie, can you give us some of the
0:56.6	lead up to this? Yeah. So Minneapolis really made headlines in June of 2020 when the city
1:02.4	counsel voted to disband the city's police department. And the decision came after now convicted
1:07.8	police officer Derek Chauvin, murdered George Floyd in Minneapolis in May of 2020. It was the
1:13.2	most recent and a string of incidents of extreme police brutality, especially against black residents.
1:18.2	So now almost 18 months later, Minneapolis voters will vote on measure two, an amendment to the
1:24.4	city's charter that would as political framed it, limit the size, scope, and influence of the city's
1:30.2	police department. Okay. So when we look at this, what does it actually do? So, okay. If enough
1:34.6	people vote yes in amendment two, the Minneapolis police department would be replaced with a department
1:38.8	of public safety. So it's a little more complicated than we can get into here and we'll link to a
1:43.8	guide on it in our show notes. But despite what some fear mongers would have you believe, this would
1:48.4	not actually replace the police and police are not actually being defunded. In fact, it would simply
1:53.7	allow the city flexibility in terms of police funding and resources, ensuring that the right
1:57.9	professionals are in the right roles. And it would eliminate the required minimum number of
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