Police Struggle to Protect and Serve in Modern-Day Minnesota

If you still have a working police department in your town, or School Resource Officers (SROs) in your local public school, or have any sort of police protection in your area, you’re luckier than you may think.

If you haven’t been following the drama with SROs, here’s the gist: this past legislative session SROs were given new, unclear restrictions on what they are and not allowed to do in the name of harm reduction and protecting students. When SROs and their police departments asked for a special session to clarify on what exactly this means for them, Governor Tim Walz refused. But he had plenty of time to go to Japan and pose with students for photo-ops. Parents, police, and the entire Republican party has been asking and pleading, but have recently given up going down the direct route and instead have resigned themselves to going about the issue through the next legislative session.

As a result, police departments have pulled their officers from schools, and more are following  the further Minnesota gets into the school year. While some departments are allowing their officers to remain, they’re all aware of how the political climate is not in their favor. It’s not as if the children are any safer now that the SROs are gone. Last week 3 Edina schools went into lockdown because of bomb threats and in Brooklyn Park, students violently fought a staff member

If you’re in a small town, has your police department closed down? Following cuts in funding and negative public perception, many police departments have had to close down. Entire communities are being put at risk.

For the police departments that are still open, no one’s applying. This may come as a shock, but the ‘defund the police’ movement harassing lawmakers and police doesn’t encourage people to stay in that profession, let alone apply in the first place.

Is anyone else sick of the left politicizing the very concept of safety? No one wins in this situation!