(Willmar MN-) This is National Correctional Officer week, and with National Police Week starting on May 11. Since the George Floyd incident in Minneapolis five years ago, and the subsequent arrest and convictions of 4 Minneapolis police officers, many officers left the field, and the number of people going into the profession plummeted. But Kyle Larson, Law Enforcement Instructor at Ridgewater College in Willmar, says he thinks the trend might be reversing…
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…Former police officer and Ridgewater Vice President of Student Success Mike Kutzke says in the Central Minnesota Region, nearly 1100 people work in law enforcement and the need will be increasing in coming years…..