Brian O'Hara
speaker
314 appearances
12 recordings
12 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 30 Jan
Brian O'Hara’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And, you know, now the last couple of years has started to come down.
And it's come down despite not having enough officers.
And we finally have started to rebuild.
And I'm just afraid if we have another large-scale unrest that we are both going to have a dramatic increase in crime, yet again, that's predictable, as well as another mass exodus of the department.
And we just – we cannot sustain that.
I know that is true.
I've had many people reach out and activists reach out, our elected officials, many people who typically have nothing good to say about the Minneapolis police have been incredibly complimentary of how well, how restrained, how disciplined the Minneapolis police officers have been in these very, very tense situations over the last several days.
But it's not universal.
You know, there's people here who
despite what's happening, seem to think it's our job to do ICE's job.
There's people here to seem to think that we should continue to make the same failed mistakes of the past when dealing with protests and crowd control and not utilize the best practices to deescalate and to keep everyone safe.
Are we fully aware of that?
Of course not.
We haven't accomplished winning trust with all levels of the community.
That was obvious this week with all the hate and vitriol that was directed towards our officers.
But there's certainly been progress.
I mean, I think everybody wants to get back to some sense of normalcy.
And I think that does involve some level of returning to some basic things that we accepted as normal.
You know, that obviously isn't federal law enforcement stops enforcing federal law.
That's not the answer either.
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