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The Minneapolis Safe City Collaborative is responsible for the Downtown Camera Registry, which MDID helped launch in 2014, is a tool that connects the MDID Fusion Center with public and private security cameras throughout the downtown area. The Downtown Camera Registry offers a way to connect to private businesses’ security cameras to help with crime prevention, engagement, and enforcement. The downtown camera registry is funded by MDID and maintained through efforts of both MDID and Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) staff. There are currently more than 500 cameras on the registry, and in order to join the business or organization which owns the security camera must sign on. The Downtown Camera Registry tool offers video camera access to MPD which equates to more than $1.2 million in assets. The cameras, when needed, are viewable at MPD’s Strategic Information Center as well as at the MDID Fusion Center. There were 181 different cameras spanning 74 different companies from the Downtown Camera Registry used during investigations last year. The success of the Downtown Camera Registry led to law enforcement creating a city-wide spin-off effect for organizations to connect outside of downtown, and other law enforcement agencies are using it as well. For more information on the Downtown Camera Registry, please contact Shane Zahn.
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The Minneapolis Safe City Collaborative is responsible for the Downtown 100 Chronic Offenders program allows a dedicated prosecutor and probation officer to be assigned to up to the top 100 downtown offenders. It is a collaboration between the MDID, MPD, Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office, Hennepin County Community Corrections, St. Stephen’s Human Services, the Salvation Army, 1st Precinct neighborhood associations, and other community and businesses and stakeholders. It also includes the provision of housing and treatment services for offenders in need of assistance. Last year, there was a 72 percent reduction in crime by the Downtown 100 offenders within the MDID boundaries. That is the sixth straight year of a reduction of 70 percent or more. View the 2015 Downtown 100 Chronic Offenders recap at www.minneapolisdid.com/safezone. For information on the Downtown 100 program, please contact Heidi Johnston.
This podcast is a vision that has found its roots in the historical mistreatment of black persons throughout this country; moreover, in light of recent history, where the world viewed the most egregious and despicable murder of unarmed black men by white police officers in the state of Minnesota. I would like with the aid of multimedia (audio and video) provide awareness of criminal injustice that has historically had a detrimental effect on people of color. I will co-host a podcast out of the city where George Floyd was murdered. Along with providing a commentary on law enforcement and the system of corrections. The platform will vary from commentaries on current issues to interviews with those directly affected by enacted laws and statutes. This conversation will not only include those who are currently and have been recently released from prison but also provide an opportunity for the voiceless to voice their experiences in dealing with the criminal injustice system. In addition, any new laws that are being introduced that affect those currently or previously in the system of correction will be debated.