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Report: Minneapolis misused police coaching
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/06/25/minneapolis-police-misused-coaching-report-findsA report released this week found that Minneapolis police often mishandled officer discipline cases in past years.
The report was issued by Effective Law Enforcement for All (ELEFA), the group responsible for monitoring the policing agreement between the city of Minneapolis and the state's human rights department.
It found that Minneapolis police in the past often wrongly routed discipline cases to coaching rather than harsher discipline, and that cases often went unresolved for long periods of time.
ELEFA looked at cases from as long ago as 2018 and as recently as 2024 that were handled by the police department’s Internal Affairs Unit and Office of Police Conduct Review. Many of the cases pre-date the city’s court-enforced agreement over policing with the state Department of Human Rights.
The report was issued by Effective Law Enforcement for All (ELEFA), the group responsible for monitoring the policing agreement between the city of Minneapolis and the state's human rights department.
It found that Minneapolis police in the past often wrongly routed discipline cases to coaching rather than harsher discipline, and that cases often went unresolved for long periods of time.
ELEFA looked at cases from as long ago as 2018 and as recently as 2024 that were handled by the police department’s Internal Affairs Unit and Office of Police Conduct Review. Many of the cases pre-date the city’s court-enforced agreement over policing with the state Department of Human Rights.