Minneapolis Lawsuit
Interesting, seeing as how Groot just cut 600 spots from the Department with plans to "defund" another 1,000 as retirements continue stacking up:
Minneapolis residents have standing to sue the city over an alleged police staffing violation, Hennepin County District Court Judge Jamie Anderson has ruled. Anderson’s order rejected the city of Minneapolis’ attempt to throw out the lawsuit because the city said residents lacked standing to sue.
Anderson said he didn’t have enough information yet to decide on the outcome sought by plaintiffs.
Still, Anderson cited McKee v. Likins, in which the Minnesota Supreme Court held that “[t]axpayers are legitimately concerned with the performance by public officers of their public duties. Accordingly … a taxpayer suing as a taxpayer has standing to challenge administrative action which allegedly is rulemaking adopted without compliance with the statutory notice requirements.”
Eight Minneapolis residents sued the City Council and Mayor Jacob Frey in August, arguing they violated the charter requirement to staff roughly 743 officers for the 425,000-person city. The lawsuit argues that the number of licensed police officers has dropped from 825 at the start of 2020 to about 634.
In this case, the City Charter actually dictates the number of Officers to be utilized to keep order, so the defense cited by municipalities (DeShaney vs. Winnebago and Town of Castle Rock vs. Gonzales) regarding "No Duty to Protect" does not apply here - Minneapolis has a legislated Duty to Protect into its actual charter.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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Minneapolitans, you are getting (and its going to worse) what you voted for, good and hard!
Elections have consequences.
"HAA-HAA!"
Hopefully the citizenry can separate the mayor
and all the Police De-Funding simpletons of the
city council from their personal treasure and
assets and bust them down to homelessness and
hair-pulling, eye-watering, hand-wringing,
knee-knocking, pant-shitting destitution, misery
and ruin...
It's always amusing as long as it isn't THEM
getting the fat end of somebody else's
way fucked-up interpretation of "justice."
Just like they envisioned inflicting upon Police Officers
and their families as part of the community's revenge for
"institutional racism."
Groot and the creatures will quickly and quietly pass a bill saying no suing and only 100 officers in the city or some such nonsense.
Stay tuned
I bet you the tax payers are still paying the full amount of taxes as if the police budget still staffed the full number of police officers— so where is dat extra cheddah at
Last I checked, Minneapolis resident took a pledge to NOT call cops for robberies and the like. What happened?
Minnesota. Nothing but brain frozen liberals and Somalians.
extrapolated to Chicago 5,240 policemen needed.
Rest assured no Cook County judge would ever let a lawsuit like this see the light of day
F the residents in Minneapolis and all major cities for electing Marxists, you voted for these mutts so live with em. ♠️
420,000 residents / 750 cops = 560 people per cop. Yikes.
Seattle Police Mass Exodus - 144 Quit while Council Votes to Defund https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps8ZzbNI-sU
Why anyone would not be seeking to exit Chicago defies logic especially if you are working in a toxic work environment. Kim Foxx, Prickwinkle, Lightfoot has police officers in a catch and release trick bag. It's only a matter of time before you end up in a lawsuit for arresting someone that Kim Foxx fails to prosecute. Police are not welcome here by the crooked democrat dictators anyone that doesn't see that is in denial and/or suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. If you're waiting for the rigged elections turnaround good luck, you're dreaming
Jacob Frey.......run out of his own protest!
Namby-Pamby SJW who was BLM’ed and told to go home!
Had to do the Walk Of Shame as he was taunted by those he SUPPORTS!
Gotta love it when they eat their own!
Yo, Minneapolis, you get what you ask for!
Vote in another asswipe, have more peaceful protesting!
I wouldn’t trust Jacob Frey to run a free sidewalk lemonade stand in January.
The city charter requires 0.0017 police department EMPLOYEES per resident. There are about 425,000 residents, so that would be 723 employees.
There are presently about 650 police officers in the police department and about 300 other employees. The total number of employees far exceeds what the charter requires.
Since the charter actually uses the word "employees", I don't think this law suit is going very far. Unless the courts can somehow convolute the word "employee" to mean "officer" just for that one sentence.
§ 7.3. - Police.
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(c) Funding. The City Council must fund a police force of at least 0.0017 employees per resident, and provide for those employees' compensation, for which purpose it may tax the taxable property in the City up to 0.3 percent of its value annually. This tax is in addition to any other tax, and not subject to the maximum set under section 9.3(a)(4).
I spend half the year living in a Mpls. suburb. Carjackings in the city of Mpls are skyrocketing. Carjackings don't occur in the suburbs because the suburbs will prosecute crimes and carjackings.
People say that Minneapolis is getting as bad as Detroit. Actually, Detroit's central city area has gotten better over the years, while Minneapolis is still on a downward path.
In this case, the City Charter actually dictates the number of Officers
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It does not actually say that. The charter does not use the term "officers" in the provision being cited. It uses the term "employees". I think it is going to be hard to get any court to decide that where the charter refers to employees it really means officers. Kind of a stretch.
But one never knows. Courts have come up with some strange rulings in the past.
If they think it's bad now, wait until next year.
DeShaney (court ruling) was a cluster fuck... Mostly by how other courts try to shoehorn in exceptions or, to the opposite, excuse the application when SJWs cry out.
In effect, DeShaney gives opening for race based identity politics to be the norm in court. Yikes! The presence of the Race Card makes or breaks the 'right' to police 'protection' as it were. Good grief...
"In other words, you may not have a right to police protection, but if the state is failing to provide that protection based on race— if race factors into that deprivation— your rights are being violated, and you have a case. As the decision noted:
There is no right to state protection against madmen or criminals, but there is a constitutional right to have police services administered in a nondiscriminatory manner—a right that is violated when a state actor denies such protection to disfavored persons."
Source:
The Waning Luxury of Being Color-Blind - Taki's Magazine - Taki's Magazine
https://www.takimag.com/article/the-waning-luxury-of-being-color-blind/
Last I checked, Minneapolis resident took a pledge to NOT call cops for robberies and the like. What happened?
Robberies and the like happened.
The Jurisprudence in Mn. is much different than many other states. Look for this lawsuit to go nowhere!
420,000 residents / 750 cops = 560 people per cop. Yikes
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What do you think the ideal ratio is?
In any case, cops are people too and making it an us versus them thing is not helpful.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
extrapolated to Chicago 5,240 policemen needed.
11/27/2020 06:07:00 AM
Now, figure in square miles of areas covered. 57 1/2 sq miles in Minneapolic vs 234 in Chicago. Might want to look into how many hotels, conventions, tourists, transit lines, airports, schools, sports venues, entertainment venues, etc., each has, as well.
In other words, your extrapolation isn't relevant.
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