Thread by @WedgeLIVE

Happening now: City Council public safety committee receiving a presentation on "evidence-based strategic interventions to reduce violence and promote safe communities."

Violence is concentrated in small, intense groups, which is not changing: "That existing high risk world is becoming more active."

"Violence is not moving to new people and places."

"The pandemic has made it easier for that small number of impact players to operate... Schools are closed, clubs are closed, restaurants are closed. The high risk population is not inclined to listen to public health advice. They're in public places near where they live."

"There's something special going on nationally around this intersection of high risk folks, the pandemic, and our national police legitimacy crisis."

"deliberately center non law enforcement engagement as much as possible, while recognizing that we still live in a world in which extremely small numbers of people will not respond to any of that" (violence interruption and outreach)

Presentation from David Kennedy from John Jay College's National Network for Safe Communities
lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/RCA/1…

"If you want to address the violence, address the violence." Rather than getting bogged down in broader issues like family, the economy, or the criminal justice system, which are important, "Effective violence prevention looks a lot like contact tracing." Attention to detail.

"If a significant number of people in the city of Minneapolis no longer think that the Minneapolis police department is something that they want in their lives, and the lives of their community, MPD has earned that over a long, long time." Not everyone feels that, but a lot do.

Council Member Cunningham has a staff direction to address the "small number of people who are causing a lot of harm." Says community and MPD "already know who these people are" and it's time to get them out of this cycle of violence.

Staff direction passes. Referred to POGO Committee.

Phillipe Cunningham closed the meeting by "speaking directly to that small group of people who are shooting the guns in our city."

Council President Bender: "I'll just be frank, I think there are folks who are sort of thinking that the Minneapolis City Council created a lack of legitimacy ourselves. I would say that we were responding to one."

Prompting Kennedy to talk about MPD's earned illegitimacy.