Minneapolis one step closer to hiring civilian safety patrols

[sarisataka]

Source: KSTP- ABC affiliate

The Minneapolis City Council Budget Committee has approved moving $500,000 from the police budget and putting it into the Office of Violence Prevention to help pay for civilian safety patrols.

Jamil Jackson is a paid consultant with the Office of Violence Prevention and he told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS he's been asked to put together a proposed plan to implement the civilian patrols.

"It would have to be multiple groups that get the money," Jackson said.  "But, how the money is going to be disbursed hasn't been decided at this point, because those are things that are still being tweaked and worked out."

Jackson said his proposal would have 100 civilians on patrol with two groups of 20 on the north and south side of Minneapolis, and one group of 20 in the downtown area.



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[OneCrazyDiamond]

1. I hope they don't hire Zimmerman types,

or those assholes who killed that jogger in Georgia.

[George II]

2. That's precisely what I was going to say (about Zimmerman)

[OneCrazyDiamond]

3. I image there are only a few people who would sign up.

We need people who care for people.

[LeftInTX]

4. We did this for our parks in San Antonio

We have miles of paved trails. In 2013, a girl was murdered. The city couldn't afford a bunch of police officers etc, so we've got trail volunteers. These are people who are out on the trails anyway.

It works out pretty good.

[progree]

5. Ahh, the Guardian Angels again.

[progree]

6. A quick Google sez the police budget is $193 million, so $500,000 is 0.26% of that n/t