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On HIRING NEW COPS. The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously for this. This is the same city council which voted in December to approve a budget that was set to move $8 million of funding from the police despite record crime rates. The Minneapolis Police Department currently has only 638 officers available to work, around 200 fewer than usual. With new recruit classes, the city anticipates it will have 674 officers available at the end of the year, with another 28 in the hiring process.

However, there remains a threat to police protection in Minneapolis. Yes 4 Minneapolis, a coalition of local community groups financed by George Soros, is collecting signatures to try to get a proposal to replace the police department with a public safety department that would include law enforcement and other services on the November ballot. The Yes 4 Minneapolis committee is being fueled by a half-million dollar grant from the Washington, DC-based group Open Society Policy Center, which is associated with billionaire George Soros.

On HIRING NEW COPS. The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously for this. This is the same city council which voted in December to approve a budget that was set to move $8 million of funding from the police despite record crime rates. The Minneapolis Police Department currently has only 638 officers available to work, around 200 fewer than usual. With new recruit classes, the city anticipates it will have 674 officers available at the end of the year, with another 28 in the hiring process. However, there remains a threat to police protection in Minneapolis. Yes 4 Minneapolis, a coalition of local community groups financed by George Soros, is collecting signatures to try to get a proposal to replace the police department with a public safety department that would include law enforcement and other services on the November ballot. The Yes 4 Minneapolis committee is being fueled by a half-million dollar grant from the Washington, DC-based group Open Society Policy Center, which is associated with billionaire George Soros.

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>The city was plagued by soaring violent crime last year - with homicide, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, theft and arson all up on last year's figures. By the end of the year, police had recorded 532 gunshot victims, more than double the same period a year ago.

>Carjackings spiked to 375 by December, up 331 per cent from the same period last year. And violent crimes topped 5,100, compared with just over 4,000 for the same period in 2019.