We are currently understaffed and we would need to approximately double in size in order to effectively move forward and maintain our current workload.

educating the community on uh what we're actually doing because if we don't do that, people aren't going to know.

Justice, you know, looks different in many different ways. And I think this guy just he really just wanted his bike back or his bikes back. And um sometimes justice is just recovering some bicycles and going to community meetings and uh developing those relationships.

what we've heard is well two things. um respect and one of the big ones is explaining uh why why they're stopped and like what's going on with the officer like are they like if they're being searched like tell me why I'm being searched you know and just be respectful and acknowledge that they might not know what's going on because they are a kid and that's one of the big things that we we we kind of learned from that and that's one of the things that we're incorporating in our engaging with minors policies

policy should always govern. Um you know the the quoting quoting the uh the language is um who's decide uh who's to decide when quote policy language is no longer operational and what practice quote is clearly established when for example uh some members follow the written policy and some follow quote established practice. So, it's problematic and I'm not a labor lawyer, but I know that this is a highly controversial issue and I think um it's a recipe for chaos if this is in in the matrix and um we thought that it should be removed um because again it's you know who you have to interpret interpret these things and it's it's subjective subject to misinterpretation and manip manipulation by the parties involved by the stakeholders involved.

The mayor, my boss, has a very aggressive timeline of 16 weeks uh to get this done. And so, uh, what we have done for the search, we have a national search. We're using the same consultant that we use for the, uh, fire chief that we just hired, uh, is also helping us with this, with this search.

If there has been any miscommunication as far as when he should appear in front of the body, I'll take responsibility for the email that I sent to Chair Reeves and since have talked to her about it. So, uh he's not here tonight. Uh he plans to come before this body. [snorts] Uh he's not shying away from that. I can tell you when we got notice of it, he would have if if he had responded first, he would have told you that he couldn't make it tonight.

as a civilian you could tell me that you've done all these different things and I probably wouldn't pick up that for instance that's a practice that we've stopped doing 5 years ago. But when you have uh people like um Sheriff Wit, you have police chief uh Booker out of Bloomington as a representative from Noble. Uh when you have um you know someone like um uh Chief Harris well not I'm sorry now he's deputy mayor uh in New Orleans like Michael Harrison who actually had you know was on the team before taking on that job. When you have, I think, those type of people on a panel, they seem to be able to get at those questions and be able to really vet um those those folks because they actually can speak the language in a way that um if you're not really engrossed in that work, you don't.

I will respectfully disagree with you about Minneapolis police cooperating with ICE. Um I know that that is a hot topic for some some of our members in the community. Uh, but I would say that our Minneapolis Police Department does not cooperate with ICE. We follow our separation ordinance.

I'm curious why B would also fall into that category because that is disciplinary action.

I'm just I can't think of any ideas off the top of my head, but it seems to me be worthwhile to have more articulation of how that independence will be protected and preserved and assured. It seems like traditionally that's a challenge.

I think we're also here to hear these updates kind of on behalf of the public. We know that we have I mean we have people in the room but we know we also have people uh watching this remotely people again watching it after the fact uh and you know researching issues etc. So, I I think that public record aspect uh all of those combined led me to conclude that I think it's good to continue hearing from these three sources and and get the um the updates at each meeting.

I think we're an important source of community accountability to deal with that backlog. And if we get to the point where we're really current and so let's report every other month because we're so current, that's a different scenario, but I don't think we're there yet.

I talked to a lot of people in the community who still don't know what our process is, and their question is, 'How do you get from point A to point B?' um they like getting the information, but they still don't understand the internal process of how this all works because it's a lot of information.

I I'm trying to decide how important this is. like is it worth a debate and everything at this point? And I would love some feedback on that. Do we need this in light of what we heard tonight?

So under under the city charter the only person who has the authority to compel the chief to attend something is the mayor. So that is why your resolution was tweaked to use the ordinance powers that you do have to be able to compel to the extent that you can. So it's not necessarily compelling. It's recommending that he come and my understanding is he has expressed that he will.

I think you know the city of Minneapolis is unique in what it's been dealing with in the creation of this body and all the reasons we're here. And I think any police chief should want to come before us and answer our questions. they're from the public and I think that should happen regardless of whether the police chief takes us up on that or not because the absence of that is, you know, in some ways uh equally powerful.