Police won't do stops for 'lesser violation'

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Minneapolis Police Department volition nary longer halt drivers solely for low-level postulation offenses, according to an interior memo obtained by WCCO.

Those offenses see “expired tabs, an point dangling from a mirror, oregon not having a moving licence sheet light.”

Police Chief Medaria Arradondo wrote successful the memo that the alteration is an effort to “better utilize time, resources and operational effectiveness.”

“By prioritizing the much superior postulation violations and nary longer conducting regular postulation stops connected the lesser violations mentioned supra wherever it’s the lone offense, it volition person minimal interaction connected existent MPD postulation enforcement and tin besides assistance physique spot with the communities we serve,” Arradondo wrote.

The memo besides said the metropolis attorney’s bureau “will halt prosecuting tickets for driving aft suspension erstwhile the lone ground for suspension was a nonaccomplishment to wage fines oregon fees and determination was nary mishap oregon different egregious driving behaviour that would interaction nationalist safety.”