November 3, 2021
Question 2 on the ballot in Minneapolis in this year’s election has be rejected by more than the requisite margin. Question 2 concerned replacing the Minneapolis Police Department with a newly-formed “Department of Public Safety.” Given the failed attempted to abolish the Ithaca, New York, Police Department, in a likewise manner, the abandonment of Question 2 in Minneapolis, one of the epicenters of the movement to abolish police departments, the movement to defund and replace law enforcement has met, and will likely continue to meet, substantial resistance hereon.