Sorry, David, but we lost that one in the legislature last term. A
couple of decades ago, city employees were required to live in
the city. At some point, they became very powerful in the city
political process and the city leaders decided to okay the move
out of the city.
In 1993 or thereabouts, the city won the right to require city
employees to live in the city again, through the efforts of the
Mpls legislative delegation. Current employees were
grandfathered in, but new hires were required to be residents.
Employees chafed under this new rule. The city didn't offer the
right kind of housing or size of lots and the crime was too bad
and so on and so on and so. The police really worked the
suburban legislators and the personal-freedom people and got
the law repealed.
By the way, the school board never implemented residency
requirements for their employees.
Linda hIggins
senator, mpls
From: David Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [Mpls] We are the police
Date sent: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:12:12 -0500 (EST)
> I think at a minimum--a bare minimum--that the police be
> compelled to live in the city of Minneapolis as a condition
> of their employment. If they have to live with the people
> that they serve, protect, and, in some cases bully and
> brutalize, then there may be some accountability.
> Accountability is what we are asking for isn't it? It is
> possible to have boundries, but this would go some of the
> way of mitigating some of the excesses that can occur. If
> you see a cop as a neighbor, parent, bike-rider, and shade
> tree mechanic, then it will be more difficult to stereotype
> and isolate them from the rest of the community. It works
> the other way as well.
>
> David Wilson
> Loring Park
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