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Jacob Frey: “Recruitment is dramatically up. We bottomed out at around…”

Featuring: Jacob Frey, Democratic–Farmer–Labor | Mayor of Minneapolis | Minnesota

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FULL NEWS CONFERENCE: Mayor announces Minneapolis police chief's resignation

Published | Video Starts at 11:13

What does this do when an officer that may be graduating wants to join a department that now has this to. We've made tremendous strides in this city over the last several years. Recruitment is dramatically up. We bottomed out at around 550 officers. We're now hovering around 650. 40, I believe. So that number continues to trend up from there. We just swore in a class of 28 recruits and I believe four laterals. (11:13–11:22)

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