Recently released city documents show at least a dozen Minneapolis police officers were disciplined for misconduct in the days of demonstrations and rioting following George Floyd’s May 2020 police killing.
There were a dozen cases where the behavior was so bad and the officer was so stubborn or stupid or whatever that they couldn’t be swept under the rug despite MPDs best efforts to do so
Because of a backlog, investigations can take years, and discipline decisions aren’t public until all appeals have been exhausted. So the public doesn’t know what became of those officers who sprayed protesters or beat curfew violators for years — and that’s only if the officers involved don’t resign, which ends the investigation.
What’s unknown are how many officers were directed to what MPD calls “coaching” after the riot response.
Coaching is an alternative to discipline, and because it’s not officially discipline, there’s no public record of it. MPD has in the past used coaching to resolve serious complaints like assaulting a teenager for shoplifting.
What’s unknown are how many officers were directed to what MPD calls “coaching” after the riot response.
Coaching is an alternative to discipline, and because it’s not officially discipline, there’s no public record of it. MPD has in the past used coaching to resolve serious complaints like assaulting a teenager for shoplifting.
That’s absolutely ridiculous. If “coaching” isn’t discipline, then there should be a public record that the complaint resulted in no discipline.
There were a dozen cases where the behavior was so bad and the officer was so stubborn or stupid or whatever that they couldn’t be swept under the rug despite MPDs best efforts to do so
That’s absolutely ridiculous. If “coaching” isn’t discipline, then there should be a public record that the complaint resulted in no discipline.
The system is working as designed.