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Crime rates in Minneapolis fell in parts of 2023-2024 despite lower officer counts.
The reporting provided does not document any instance of Police Department officers shooting someone in 2025; the high-profile fatal shootings described in these sources occurred in early 2026 and inv...
Minneapolis saw a sharp, sustained exodus of officers beginning in 2020 that translated into rising vacancy rates and a dramatically smaller sworn force through 2023; quantified measures in city and m...
pursued a mix of financial incentives, contract raises, targeted recruitment, and policy studies after 2021 to blunt a steep post-2020 staffing decline; the city negotiated retention bonuses in late 2...