All you Minnesota defund the police communists look like you have gotten your wish. Minneapolis police forces are facing historically low staffing shortages since the police where smeared after the George Floyd OD. Minneapolis police forces are down as much as 35% in some part of the shithole that is Minneapolis. Ilhan Omar must be so proud.
The Minneapolis Police Department is experiencing historically low staffing shortages, with ranks down approximately 35% since the death of George Floyd in 2020.
According to a June report from the Department of Justice, the MPD had 892 sworn officers in 2018, but that number has since dropped to just 585. An officer told the DOJ that the police department’s morale “is at an all-time low.”
“Since 2020, hundreds of officers have left MPD, up and down the ranks, young and old, patrol officers and supervisors,” the report stated.
The DOJ noted that the department has failed to replenish its staff, partly due to its “strained relationship with the community it serves.”
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that at the time of Floyd’s death in March 2020, the MPD had 904 active, sworn police officers and 19 officers on leave. The number of officers on leave jumped to 152 in December 2020. By late August 2021, the number of active police officers on the force plummeted to 646 and continued to slowly decrease over time.