Our mayor is a terrible picker of police chiefs. He doesn't have the skill set and he needs to sit this one out. Our organization is calling on the uh the city to step back and involve the community in a deep way in the selection of the next chief, including at the level of interviewing potential candidates.

If you believe you have a complaint against a police officer in Minneapolis, the process is a joke. ... It was the vice chair of the Minneapolis City Council's public health safety and equity committee, Council Member Saurin Stevenson.

The discipline matrix is an essential part of quickly and accurately correcting department culture. Even if policies are in place and there is associated training, without appropriate and effective correction action, there will be a continued lack of adherence to the policies and sluggish cultural shift to meet the elements laid out in the consent decree.

one obstacle O'Hara is gone and as the Alifa report pointed out um he was taking four times the allotted 30-day period to review IIA cases which is unacceptable that causes a significant increase in the backlog and he is part of the problem and he's gone thankfully. Um but it's important to note that we should have been aware of this earlier. Alifa should have made us aware of this much much earlier.

For the past two years, you have heard Allison's story and watched it unfold before your eyes. You have been part of a story that this performative committee attempted to silence. ... After more than a year, the OPCR is now only circulating circulating back to investigate Sergeant Hire's failures in Allison's case. More than a year later, they still have not completed their report. That delay raises serious questions about whether this process is intended to deliver accountability or to simply run out the clock until public attention fades.

All final and approved investigative reports shall be forwarded to a review panel. ... I don't see how it can be argued that the process labeled intake isn't actually an investigation and therefore needs to be going through a review panel. The panel gets to decide whether the evidence proves that there was or wasn't a policy violation.

Our mission in the civil rights department is to protect and advance human rights through enforcing civil rights protections with accountability and impartial investigations to empower community. The vision for the department is as the people's investigator, we strive to eliminate civil rights violations in the city of Minneapolis by rooting ourselves in service, justice, and community and working to remove systemic and institutional barriers that cause harm.

The current situation for training budget within the civil rights department, which is generally where any training budget would come for members of the CCPO, is $8,000 for 2026. ... In 2025 we did have a one-time budget allocation of $100,000 for training ... and that just simply isn't available in 2026.

My my my concern is there's a $1.4 $4 million allocation for a strategic plan for the council members to learn how to get along with the mayor's office. It would have been nice to see some of their dollars allocated to CCPO for training. I think this is very important and the committee members are here. They're saying this is they want us to be on our best.

I I think the biggest uh the biggest findings from assign from assessing these 250 calls is really that there needs to be some standardization. Um and uh some some cleaning of the data. Um, you know, we need to establish clear CAD data, CAD usage, CAD system, uh, guidelines so that officers and sworn have a better understanding of what their data entry in terms of code disposition, um, time on arrival, time on closure, how that impacts, um, you know, reporting of response times, of disposition that's handled, um, of their timeliness.

I'm surprised it's more than half of all of these reports have some error. That feels awfully high and it feels like we are not taking care of some of the very basics of documentation if half of the the logging has errors.

as of 610 2026, we have 87 cases that are still remaining open. Of our 213 historical backlog cases, 126 of them are closed. ... which equals to about 59% of our backlog being closed and completed.

for IIA cases that is an average of 98 days at this point. Um and for OPCR cases, that is an average of 128 days. ... the chief has not even seen it yet at that point. So, uh we're working on trying to find ways to streamline those.

It is frustrating as a resident to see this number sitting. I mean, I understand new ones are coming in, but we haven't really tackled it when police spending it. Like, this seems to be the only area where we actually are concerned about meeting our budgets and not going over budget. And so, while Commissioner Barnett is in the room, I just want to point out it's frustrating that the police department got Harley's but can't finish their investigations.

Stop searches, citations, and arrest policies. I know there's some people on the um the policy committee here. They know that's a huge policy. Uh impacts uh officers and the community. um it does kind of a disservice just to say stop search citations and arrests, but that's basically any kind of uh interaction with law enforcement. Uh that's a policy involved with that. So uh thank you guys for your feedback on that and um that's a big one that's coming on and we're uh developing training for that.

limitations on worked. Um again that's a really important one because um you know if officers are working super long hours that can kind of affect their behavior if they're you know their a interactions with people and so uh we kind of want to monitor that. Um so I just want to touch on a few of these that just kind of bring uh a human element to to it and show uh um that these policies really do matter. They're not they're not just words on a piece of paper.

normally a complaint on the chief would go to OPCR. That's normally what happens. They would get the complaint and then they would get it to the office of community safety. Gets a number. It gets on the dashboard. ... Ultimately in the situation with the chief because this is an appointed position by the mayor uh the mayor really has the ultimate decision when it comes to discipline.

You the city got the Alifa report, a preview of it May 11th. ... We re the mayor renominated O'Hara May 7th. I am just really confused why we would move forward with a renomination before we got the third party review statement of how has I mean from my perspective the most important thing we're asking for the chief right now is to reform the police department and to jump the gun by 4 days as a resident to see in the start tribune as a resident and a member the CCPO to see in the Star Tribune um both David Douglas and uh Commissioner Lucero saying, "Oh yeah, O'Hara was holding up reform. He was the problem was very frustrating to hear when days earlier we were being told by the city he is the re we need him to keep reform going." It felt like a 180 pivot and I like I'm frustrated and confused why we would do that without reading the damn report.

The federal government has the final say, right? Federal federal law trumps state law. There's no way around it. ... they can't interfere, right, when the agents conduct necessary and proper to perform their duties. ... state police for instance MPD if they interfere with federal agents in their duties they can be arrested they can be jailed they can be imprisoned.

my conclusion about all this is you got to take it case by case basis when you're talking about policy in terms of determining how you're going to deal with federal bad actors.

I think when I saw somebody get ripped saw a guy get ripped from his child and the child was beside himself that's when I threw myself into this you know fully that is the ice cases cuz that is a devastating thing to see even thinking about it now it's hard to talk about it so that's where it came for me.