An audit examining the response by Minneapolis Police Department to two high-profile cases reveals officers had delayed response times due to staffing shortages and heavy call loads, as well as an inconsistent understanding of the law.
Those are the key findings from a 121-page audit conducted by the Minneapolis city auditor Robert Timmerman, who found multiple failures and made dozens of recommendations regarding the way officers handled the death investigation of Allison Lussier, and the shooting of Davis Moturi.
In February 2024, Lussier, an Indigenous woman, was found dead inside her Minneapolis apartment after making repeated calls to police reporting domestic violence involving an on-again, off-again boyfriend…