LOS ANGELES – A new study found that Minneapolis police officers used physical force against suspects more than 1,000 times in 2022, one of the highest per-capita rates in the nation. The rate was about the same as in 2020 — the year that George Floyd was murdered by a four-officer squad led by led by now-imprisoned Derek Chauvin. The new study was from the California-based. nonprofit group Mapping Police Violence, which drew on records of urban police departments nationwide. The rate in St. Paul was slightly higher than Minneapolis.
Minneapolis reforms. Seem not to be working over the two-year post-George Floyd period. Image: Minnesota Reformer