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The claim that dozens of Minneapolis police officers resigned to join U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in January 2026.
There is no credible reporting among the provided sources that 24 Minneapolis police officers resigned and 18 of them joined U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); instead, mainstream outlets...
No reputable reporting in the assembled sources confirms that Minneapolis Police Department officers resigned "in the last week"; the verifiable wave of departures cited across outlets refers to feder...
There is no authoritative figure in the provided reporting that answers how many Minneapolis Police Department officers have resigned or transferred since January 2026 using official MPD personnel rec...
There is no reliable reporting as of January 17, 2026, that Minneapolis police officers have resigned from the Minneapolis Police Department and applied to work for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforc...
There is no credible, corroborated reporting that a wave of Minneapolis Police Department officers are resigning en masse to take jobs at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; the stronger, well-s...
The specific claim that "24 Minnesota (Minneapolis) police officers resigned and joined ICE" is not supported by the reporting provided: the only source asserting many Minneapolis officers were quitti...
There are no official Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) records in the provided reporting that enumerate how many officers have left the force since January 2026 on a month-by-month basis; the avail...
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...
There is no credible, verified evidence that “many” police officers quit the to become agents; viral social posts making that claim remain unsubstantiated by news outlets or official statements . Repo...
There is no credible, corroborated reporting showing a mass exodus of Minneapolis Police Department officers “quitting and going to ICE”; the claim appears to originate in unverified social-posting an...
Claims that “many” or “more than 20” Minneapolis police officers quit to join are unverified: neither the nor ICE has confirmed mass departures to ICE, and major outlets have not substantiated the vir...
The claim that "many Minneapolis police officers are quitting the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) and joining ICE" appears in social posts but lacks corroboration in mainstream reporting; availabl...
There is no reporting in the provided sources that any Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officers have publicly resigned from MPD to join federal agencies since January 2025; the departures those so...