1. Wow, these police chiefs in the western suburbs of Minneapolis sound desperate and defeated. They’re from Brooklyn Park, Crystal, Maple Grove, Plymouth, and New Hope where gun violence is at a level “they’ve never seen before”.
2. Brooklyn Park Police Chief Craig Enevoldsen:
“It’s intentional that you didn’t hear from us.”
“Nobody wanted to hear from us for 15, 18 months and we finally just decided for the betterment of our community we gotta say something.”
“It’s intentional that you didn’t hear from us.”
“Nobody wanted to hear from us for 15, 18 months and we finally just decided for the betterment of our community we gotta say something.”
3. When asked what’s going on, Brooklyn Park resident Cinnecole Lee says “We have no idea, Tom.”
Of the people committing gun violence she says “they don’t respect the police department anymore, they don’t respect themselves by being out here doing what they’re doing."
Of the people committing gun violence she says “they don’t respect the police department anymore, they don’t respect themselves by being out here doing what they’re doing."
4. Chief Enevoldsen said it started last year in “late spring, early summer”.
Hennepin County has seen a 20% increase in violent crime. They think it’s a combination of the pandemic, the murder of George Floyd, and easy access to guns.
Hennepin County has seen a 20% increase in violent crime. They think it’s a combination of the pandemic, the murder of George Floyd, and easy access to guns.
5. Tom Lyden says:
“But the tone, they say, is set in Minneapolis. The drive-by shootings, the street racing, and a general sense of lawlessness that is spreading to their cities.”
“But the tone, they say, is set in Minneapolis. The drive-by shootings, the street racing, and a general sense of lawlessness that is spreading to their cities.”
6. Chief Enevoldsen said he thought the shootings of the 3 black children in south Minneapolis earlier this year “might get some different thinking or different connections with the police and it hasn’t”.
More on the shootings in this thread:
More on the shootings in this thread:
https://twitter.com/keikoinboston/status/1396610951001120770
8. Lyden:
“… the Defund the Police movement has portrayed all of them as illegitimate, an occupying force in their own communities."
“How much do you think the rhetoric coming out of Minneapolis City Hall affects crime?"
“… the Defund the Police movement has portrayed all of them as illegitimate, an occupying force in their own communities."
“How much do you think the rhetoric coming out of Minneapolis City Hall affects crime?"
9. Chief Enevoldsen:
“When people hear that, it emboldens them that even our elected officials are saying they don’t trust the police and they employ the police."
“When people hear that, it emboldens them that even our elected officials are saying they don’t trust the police and they employ the police."
10. Crystal Police Chief Stephanie Revering said there was a shift after George Floyd to a lack of respect for police “and it’s because of the credibility factor”.
11.
“The issue that we’re facing right now because of that is the complete lawlessness that’s going on in some of our cities and we have to try to figure out a way to combat that."
“The issue that we’re facing right now because of that is the complete lawlessness that’s going on in some of our cities and we have to try to figure out a way to combat that."
12. Lyden:
“What I hear you saying is, ‘The rules have changed, and we don’t know what the public wants from us.’”
Chief Enevoldsen: “100%.”
Chief Revering: “Correct.”
“What I hear you saying is, ‘The rules have changed, and we don’t know what the public wants from us.’”
Chief Enevoldsen: “100%.”
Chief Revering: “Correct.”
13. The chiefs also blame the revolving door of the criminal justice system. Chief Revering says that people are getting out in a very short amount of time and committing the same crimes including carjackings.
14. All 5 police departments have made reforms including “embedded social workers in their departments”.
They’ve all lost significant numbers of officers who are just done.
They’ve all lost significant numbers of officers who are just done.
15. They acknowledge that part of the problem is how white their departments are and they want to recruit more officers from marginalized communities but they’re all having recruitment issues.
16. New Hope Police Chief Tim Hoyt “We need the people that have not yet applied for law enforcement to apply. Come work in our communities. You might have the next great answer that will help us.”
18. Correction:
Apologies - this was a typo and should have said north Minneapolis (not south) as it says in the quoted tweet. I’m not going to delete and redo the whole thread.
Apologies - this was a typo and should have said north Minneapolis (not south) as it says in the quoted tweet. I’m not going to delete and redo the whole thread.
https://twitter.com/keikoinboston/status/1413366574820507650
19. This is something I haven’t seen in articles I’ve read on the status of police reform in Minnesota. I don’t understand why crisis intervention training hasn’t become standard across the US.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
20. Woodbury non-profit Minnesota Crisis Intervention Team provides "law enforcement personnel and mental health professionals with information and training in how to safely and compassionately handle a person in a mental health crisis."
mncit.org/about-us/our-m…
mncit.org/about-us/our-m…
21. This analysis is for Minneapolis. The people hit hardest by violent crime were in “our, ethnically diverse areas.”.
https://twitter.com/keikoinboston/status/1396992235753910275
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