Minneapolis Spends A Hell Of A Lot On Policing — And Much Less On Young People

'While black people in Minneapolis have been reduced to bottom caste status, white communities have thrived.”

Residents have been very vocal about spending on the police force taking priority over other programs, and that conflict was particularly acute in negotiations for this year’s budget. City leaders were successfully pressured to more than double the number of police hires, with the increased spending to be paid for with a property tax hike thatwill be “felt most acutely in less wealthy pockets of the city, where property taxes are expected to rise more than 20% next year.

ranked the Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Bloomington Metropolitan area as the fourth worst place in the country for black people to live. The median income of black residents was just 43.4% of the median income of white residents and homeownership among black people was 25.4% vs. 75.3% for white residents .

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