Brian O'Hara

And I mean, it's everything from people are being arrested and their cars are left in the roadway, sometimes blocking the street.

That one case left when it wasn't even placed in park and was rolling down the road.

We had that happen.

We had another time where there was a dog in the car and they left the dog in the car.

Wow.

I mean, even this morning, we've gotten calls for individuals who were pepper sprayed by ICE.

There's just a variety of calls for service that we then have to manage and triage that were not happening before.

It complicates things because we remain significantly understaffed.

This is the Minneapolis Police Department.

The majority of the cops that worked here in 2020, five years later, the majority have left.

And we're trying to rebuild.

We remain one third below what had been typical of staffing for the police department here today, while we're dealing with a much higher level of serious street crime than what had been normal in the past.

So this is adding additional work.

Probably the toughest distinction is we're getting called and pulled into situations that are very tense and very emotionally charged.

And oftentimes we're asked to try and step in and deescalate situations where federal law enforcement may have been involved.

That very, very quickly, as soon as we show up, we become the target of people's frustration.

Hmm.

So the minute you show up, the minute we show up, we're the problem.

You know, people are ready to go.

It could very, very quickly explode.