What could possibly go wrong, besides everything? Have these people learned nothing from the last few years?
The College Fix reports:
Minneapolis teams up with NYU law school to ‘reimagine’ policingMinneapolis is shelling out $1,000,000 to a New York University School of Law group to help it implement an “alternatives” to policing plan.The Minneapolis City Council recently approved a partnership with NYU Law’s Reimagining Public Safety, a program of its Policing Project. The initiative wants to “incorporate non-police entities,” into public safety according to the organization.It’s part of the city’s Safe and Thriving Communities plan.The NYU group works with other cities, including Chicago and Denver, “to reimagine how government responds to community needs, ending policing as a one-size-fits-all answer to all problems and fostering real community health and safety,” according to its website.The Safe and Thriving Communities report, adopted by the city council last summer, details preventative, responsive, and restorative programs the city should implement as alternatives to traditional policing. It includes the development of “individual response alternatives,” according to the report.The College Fix reached out to the Policing Project to ask if the group had made any recommendations regarding policing “alternatives” to the city and how the plan would help reduce crime.“We haven’t made any recommendations to the City of Minneapolis,” the Policing Project’s Director of Communications Joshua Manson told The Fix. “The City is bringing us on to begin implementation of the Safe and Thriving Communities report.”“That report itself doesn’t include recommendations to reduce the size of the police force,” he said.“The focus of our work is to find ways to incorporate non-police entities into the creation of public safety in order to give officers more time to engage with the community and focus on the investigation and deterrence of violent crime,” Manson said.
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