The trial of Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who was convicted and sentenced on murder charges for the death of George Floyd, cost the state $2.9 million in police overtime. The state had apparently beefed up security in light of the high-profile trial.
The Minneapolis Police Department has since requested $5 million from the Minneapolis City Council to cover rising overtime costs for 2021. The proposal was to be presented Thursday.
Since last year, the number of officers in the Minneapolis Police Department has dropped 25%. The city now employs 632 officers, down from 845 officers last year.
The department has said it has saved between $1 million and $3 million on payroll, but due to the decline in officers, overtime pay has increased.
“So our payroll savings is not as great,” Robin McPherson, the department’s finance director, told City Council members Wednesday, according to the Minneapolis station Fox 9.
The council has said it put $5 million in a reserve fund last year, but police officials now say they need that money to cover overtime costs.
But City Council member Steve Fletcher wanted to know why the department could not use its payroll funds to cover overtime costs.
“We’re going to need help understanding where the money is going,” Fletcher said.
On the other hand, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey hopes the city will receive federal stimulus to bring in outside law enforcement to aid the department. During Chauvin’s trial, the city feared backlash from protesters if Chauvin was acquitted. Before the trial, officials spent immense resources fortifying the city’s courthouse as well as bringing in outside law enforcement.
The jury found Chauvin guilty on all counts, including second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
via newsmax
Chauvin Trial Cost Minneapolis $2.9M in Police Overtime
Perhaps “BLACK LIVES MATTER” could be paying for some of those
costly expenses as believe they and their “counterparts” were at the
basis of the burning of businesses…killings and all the destruction in
the LIBERAL CITY OF MPLS. People are scared to death with the
hate that has been generated and all by a HATEFUL GOVERNOR,
PEOPLE IN CONGRESS FROM MN AND AND THE SQUAD….OMAR…
THE LEADER OF THE PACK AND ALL THE OTHER OUTRAGEOUS
COMMUNIST PEOPLE THAT ARE NOW IN A NATION THAT WAS ONCE
BUILD ON FREEDOM AND LIBERTY FOR ALL. THERE WAS NO
RACE PROBLEM UNTIL BIDEN HAS PUSHED IT AND WE ALL KNOW
JUST WHO THE RACISTS REALLY ARE….DON’T WE? BIDEN WILL
DESTROY AMERICA AND HE IS DOING IT ONE DAY AT A TIME….
This is the worst miscarriage of JUSTICE i have ever witnessed, it was worse than a Kangaroo Court, it was more close to a LYNCHING. With a good Attorney, Officer Chauvin should have all charges dismissed and him being released. The Muslim A.G. withheld evidence and Lied and prevented the Facts from being introduced…..the Coroner’s report plainly stated that Floyd died from Drug overdose, he was a career Criminal with a long record and had just recently been released from prison, he was being arrested after committing a crime, had warrants out on him for assaulting a woman and he resisted arrest and tried to escape and did not follow the Officers
commands, Chauvin had him subdued and did not kill him by having his knee on him. The Jurors were SCARED not to convict him for fear of what would happen to them and to their City as many so-called Protesters had threatened to Burn it Down if he was not convicted BUT as we have seen, to them it didn’t matter for they are still Rioting, Looting, Burning, Destroying in
Minneapolis! These Criminals, Animals, Thugs used the death of Floyd to Wreak havoc across the Country and that is some LEGACY for a Career, Drugged Out Criminal, what a crock!