Five years after George Floyd was killed By a minibolis police officer Derek ChauvinThe city still calculates the account with the invitations to reform that followed.
Police chief Brian Ohara, who was The constitutional oath in November 2022He was insisting on implementing changes from within those safer streets and positive interactions with the Minneapolis police.
However, Ahara said that Floyd’s death is still a “open wound” in the city. While the police data show that the shootings are heading down, Minynabolis is one of the few major cities in which violent crimes have not improved since 2020, according to the analysis of the violent crime report of the City Presidents Association. Ohara said that the crime in the city was “increased” after Floyd’s death and the protests that followed, while “the numbers of the police force diminished.”
“People have a very basic need to feel safe, and it has been transferred to many people because of everything that happened since then,” said Uhara.
The officer’s shortage continues to be tense. In 2024, Ohara told CBS News The Minneapolis Police Department was short by about 200 officers.
“I go to these crime scenes. I was standing there, children, teenagers, men died in the street, and mothers behind the crime scene wandering, and I wandered in my head,” “we had a lot of murders this week, what happens if someone else died? “We have no enough killings. I mean, it was sometimes important. The urgency of the problem is real. “
However, O’Hara is determined to make a change in its resources. He focused on “returning to the basics” and ensuring that “everything we do is about reducing crime while gaining confidence with society.”
Uhar also worked to “restore some pride in this profession” to try to return more officers to the job, and tried to change the culture in the department. The Minneapolis Police has also modified detention tactics and works to participate in the community and train officers.
“In my experience, people here differ greatly from the impression I had from this section in 2020,” said Ohara.
Earlier this week, the Ministry of Justice announced that it will end investigations from six police agencies Canceling the proposed approval ceremony for Louisville and Minneapolis. Ohara said that reform efforts will continue, even without federal supervision. Mininapolis City Council He agreed to the approval decree In January.
Omar Mohamed, a resident of Minynabolis, said, “Saturday morning,” that he admired the changes he had seen over the past few years.
“The new president did a great job, because what I see now is, before that, the police are used to withdrawing everyone, and children on the street, they used to use a lot of difficult things, as you know?” Muhammad said. “Many big things have changed, that’s what I see.”
