Murders have doubled in Minneapolis since 2020, and yet city Democrats are worried about finding more bureaucrats to babysit their police department.

The federal consent decree, which contains many of the same proposed mandates as the city’s agreement with the state, requires the city of Minneapolis to consider policing alternatives meant to reduce racial disparities.

MINNEAPOLIS—After losing hundreds of officers since 2020, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara says the force is now at a turning point. The Minneapolis Police Department welcomed its largest group of new hires in five years on Tuesday.

Minneapolis officials reached an agreement with the Department of Justice to make sweeping reforms to address discriminatory policing. The Minneapolis City Council voted 12-0 in favor of the consent decree in a closed-door session after discussing it for nearly seven hours on Monday.

A man who preferred not to give his name takes a moment at the George Floyd memorial during the annual Rise and Remember Festival near the place where Floyd was murdered three years ago by a police officer,

The Minneapolis City Council voted in favor of the proposed consent decree between the Department of Justice and the City of Minneapolis during a closed hearing session on Monday,

With only two weeks left in the Biden administration, officials hurried to finalize a plan in the city where George Floyd was murdered.