The Minneapolis office in charge of agency performance reviews has found that the city’s community peacekeeping program, an activist alternative to traditional policing that was born out of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, is at “increased risk of fraud, waste, and abuse.”
According to a recent 60-page report from the Minneapolis City Auditor’s Office, government investigators concluded that the city’s Neighborhood Safety Department fails to properly oversee the millions of dollars it pays nonprofit groups to patrol certain high-crime areas in place of police.
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