City where George Floyd was killed struggles to recruit cops
LA TimesCyrus Collins, left, a part-time cook, is among those who attended a recent recruiting session at the Minneapolis Police Academy. Inside the Minneapolis Police Academy’s sprawling campus on the city’s north side, six people sat soberly and listened to a handful of officers and city officials make their pitch about joining an understaffed department that is synonymous with the murder of George Floyd. “Our city needs more police officers,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said in August, while presenting a proposal to boost police funding in a push to increase officer numbers to more than 800 by 2025. “I don’t want people of color to be against cops,” said Collins, who works as a pizza cook and a FedEx package distributor. “You can scream as loud as you want, ‘Hire more people!’ but if fewer people are applying, then it’s not going to change the outcome much,” Parten said.
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