Minneapolis is still far from fixing the race-based policing a state civil-rights probe found, and its misconduct-case backlog is stuck, the court-ordered evaluator says.
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On April 27, 2022, the Minnesota Department of Human Rights found probable cause that the City of Minneapolis and its police department engaged in a pattern or practice of race discrimination in violation of the Minnesota Human Rights Act; the resulting settlement agreement was entered as an order by Hennepin County District Court on July 13, 2023. The independent evaluator, Effective Law Enforcement For All (ELEFA), reported in June 2026 an Internal Affairs backlog of about 55 unresolved cases with minimal headway and a stalled early-intervention system; ELEFA's president said at a June 24 community meeting that 'no progress has been made.' State Human Rights Commissioner Rebecca Lucero wrote that the city and police 'remain far from achieving the transformational change necessary to address the root causes of race-based policing.' Interim Police Chief Bill Peterson said, 'We will hold ourselves accountable to the standards our community expects and deserves.'
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