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Minneapolis city council approves measure to abolish police force

By Thomas A. Smith

The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously approved a measure to abolish the city s police department a radical proposal amid nationwide efforts by activists to defund local law enforcement agencies.

The 12-0 vote will not automatically dismantle the department, but is a first step in a long legislative process that will ultimately need popular support by city residents in a November election.

via nypost.com

If this means just scrapping the current bureaucracy and starting afresh, that could be a good thing. All bureaucracies grow worse over time often starting out bad. So Minneapolis gets a new police force called Public Safety or whatever. Could work. Probably won’t though.