Minneapolis teams up with NYU law school to ‘reimagine’ policing

Minneapolis is shelling out $1,000,000 to a New York University School of Law group to help it implement an “alternatives” to policing plan.

The Minneapolis City Council recently approved a partnership with NYU Law’s Reimagining Public Safety, a program of its Policing Project. The initiative wants to “incorporate non-police entities,” into public safety according to the organization.

It’s part of the city’s Safe and Thriving Communities plan.

The NYU group works with other cities, including Chicago and Denver, “to reimagine how government responds to community needs, ending policing as a one-size-fits-all answer to all problems and fostering real community health and safety,” according to its website.