A judge has ordered Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey to comply with a mandate in the Minneapolis City Charter that requires him to employ a minimum number of police officers for the community, according to court documents filed Thursday.
The Upper Midwest Law Center filed a lawsuit on behalf of two Minneapolis taxpayers and two people who own property in the city in March that claimed the city, including Frey, had failed to hire enough police officers. The petition points back to a 2022 decision by the state supreme court.
That decision upheld part of a district court ruling finding that the “mayor has a clear legal duty under the Minneapolis City Charter to employ at least 731 sworn police officers”…