believe certainly at that time an assessment going for an assessment center which comprised of scenarios and different type of performance measures for that position isn't true that a lieutenant has to it's a higher level of management above the 1st line sergeants yes our lieutenants are considered managers within the organization and what were your duties honestly tell . i i served for a time as. overseeing the at that time the federal mediation agreement that the minneapolis police department had entered into with the unity community mediation team and i also served time as a 4th precinct lieutenant on the night shift. in what is the what is lieutenant in the 4th precinct night shift we do. you are you have a a team of sergeants any. team of officers on

a shift that particular shift work the night hours in north minneapolis and really there is a lieutenant there to support the. mission of the precinct inspector who is kind of like the chief of that precinct. but also then to support your officers on the shift as well yes and how long did you hold that position. it was probably about 2 years as well seeing a pattern here what would happen after that. after that i was appointed to the rank of commander. in what does a commander do. commander the commander now unlike the previous civil service positions a commander now is appointed specifically by the chief of police and it is a higher position and. the commander is usually in

charge of a division and so at that time i was appointed to commander of the internal affairs . division and so you know back to internal affairs but more or less overseeing the entire operation this group how long did you hold that position 2 years ok. and after that. then i was appointed as the 1st precinct inspector and so that was a position in charge of the downtown precinct or 1st precinct and that was a patrol function so that was mainly patrol related functions even though we do have great civilian teams who work on things such as crime prevention and others but i was appointed to 1st precinct inspector in what does the inspector do at that level the inspector that was really driving the work of the precinct monitoring

and working on trying to reduce crime in that precinct working with its stakeholders its neighborhood associations its business community. making sure that whether it's investigative a patrol in the precinct that they have the resources and things that they need. interfacing with the city council members of that particular ward. and so that is really a lot of the the work that a precinct inspector does and does the precinct inspector supervise you know maybe not at the ground level but it is responsible for the supervision of all of the different positions underneath the inspector that is correct. in that position of 2 years. and after that then i was appointed to be deputy chief a chief of staff. and what is deputy chief to. deputy chief at

that time was a unique role in that i was really chief of staff for the chief of police a lot of a lot of work helping to support our department initiatives reaching out to elected officials community stakeholders. boosting up. programs. grants that the department had received. and really carrying out the mission of the chief of police. and from there for about 2 years i was appointed to. assistant chief of me and and by whom were you appointed then it was former chief jay hurtado and what did you do as the assistant chief that was really overseeing the data the operations of minneapolis police department and again also supporting the cheap. and for

approximately how long. that may have been a little shorter a buddy of yours selling you down you've broken the pattern yes and now of course you're the chief of police how are you selected who selected you to be the chief of police. well i served in an acting or an interim capacity then under. the hodges and. and then after that term ended. been married for i see minneapolis appointed me as chief of police. you may think of it down so you've had certainly it seems every rank appealable with the minneapolis police department of variety of roles is that right. and you know as such are you familiar generally with the day to day operations i guess from the patrol level all the way up to the level you are now. i'd like you to do with this

time is provide us with a little bit more information sort of an overview of minneapolis police department how it serves the city of minneapolis in p.d.f. jurisdiction is within the geographic limits of minneapolis is that right yes and what's the what's the approximate geographic area that you're that you have jurisdiction over. well to the north we border of brooklyn park and center to the south of richfield. to our east just. right up against the river st paul and to the west golden valley in so it's pretty large area would you agree that's about 58 square miles give or take yes. in there you where the current population of minneapolis. roughly about 42030000.

how many sworn officers work for the minneapolis police department. currently. around 700. it is the chief are you generally familiar with the officers who work for us a lot of people. it's a lot of people. in so it can it can be taxing to try to we've you know we've got a lot of people that work in different areas but. but i have a pretty good understanding of where folks are throughout the organization yes as we go on all the asking you if you recognize some of the names of different people we may have met at this point but at this time. up until may 26th 2020 an individual named your actual that was a hapless lease officer is that right that is correct and you aware of who this person is. do you recognize this person in the courtroom today. i do would you

please point to him and describe his work. yes. mr owens right there he's appears to be wearing a navy blue suit with a light blue tie and white shirt thank you your honor may the record reflect the witness is it down to 5 the defendant. so i'd like you to please describe for the jury how am pedia structured deploy law enforcement services to about 420000 people over a 58 square mile area 24 hours a day every day. ministry of lee how is the department working. it ministry of lee we are broken down into bureaus and so. may have mentioned you have the chief of police that really leads the organization in its mission and vision and goals and then we have an assistant chief that oversees the

day to day operations after that there are 3 deputies. she's and we have a deputy chief of patrol. and the deputy chief of patrol is responsible for the 5 geographical precincts throughout the city of minneapolis. we also have a deputy chief of professional standards and that deputy chief oversees really 2 main function in that is our training for our entire department as well as. the internal affairs portion of our department. and then we have a deputy chief the 3rd one of investigations so all of the. employees who work whether it's homicide unit robbery assault. that deputy chief oversees the investigations bureau and. we also have commanders who oversee these divisions as i mentioned they're above the civil service rank they're

appointed and they serve in different divisions. and the precincts as i mentioned there's 5 geographical areas we have 5 precinct inspectors in they are like the chief of police for those precincts yes and in some ways by my count there were 3 bureaus you have investigations patrolling professional standards as a right that is correct in the investigations bureau has a number of individual units within the bureau correct that is critical for example what type of units are within investigations yeah investigations bureau has homicide assault robbery. crimes against children there are several several different investigative units so within the investigative bureau you mentioned homicide that's where the tenant zimmermann work is that right that is screwed ok. and the patrol bureau that provides services such as 911 response like you

did when you were a patrol officers that right that's correct crime prevention traffic control emergency services all within the patrol bureau yes. and individuals. and do within the pitcher patrol bureau in order to provide us patrol services over the geographic area we've heard about precincts is that right yes and if we could publish exhibit $269.00. looking at exhibits 269 is this the geographic area of your jurisdiction yes it is and then can you just use to 69 to describe the precincts and what they are and what purpose they we serve. yes this exhibit blinds the 5 geographical

precincts. and this also lets our community know which precinct based on where they happen to live which precinct their residence or business is a part of and so you're able to see from this map here sector one per precinct one kind of is in the center there covers downtown see the riverside area the scepter me the number 4 at the top left hand corner would be our north minneapolis precinct . and then 2nd precinct number 2 cover solve the east northeast minneapolis and then 5th precinct covers self west minneapolis near the lakes area and then the 3rd precinct covers yourself east minneapolis area. and focusing specifically on the 3rd precinct. you see it's divided further into these sectors is that right that is correct and that's for the purposes of being able to deploy patrol services correct

yes within the various precincts this is primary a tool for dispersing patrol officers correct yes but they're also investigative functions within the precincts as well correct that would be specifically assigned to that precinct yes. but professional standards that would that would cover all the precincts yes ok. if we could publish to $68.00 i'd like to focus specifically on the 3rd precinct. it's a little hard to see but you can see the. that's much better. you can see the different colors it appears the sectors that we looked at. that in the previous exhibit are listed here.

if you take a look at sector one that would be represented as 310 on exhibit 26 years as a right it is then sector 2 would be exhibit 320. it is our right and we won't move through each of the sectors but. the purpose of these sectors again is to further distinguish different geographic areas within the 3rd precinct or any precinct so we be able to say dispatchers deploy law enforcement resources there right that is correct dispatchers like jenna scurry for example could send a car to a particular location based on the different sectors that are within this precinct is that right. and a professional standards bureau you can take please. the professional standards bureau is a professional standards bureau do. one of the functions is training. we

have a commander again that is one of the appointed ranks who oversees the training division and they're responsible for making sure that not only are our officers. in compliance with our mandated post board educational requirements every year but also really looking to make sure that we continue to evolve and that we're staying on top of the necessary training that's important for us that has the benefit to our communities that we serve. and so that's that sick or piece to what our professional standards training division those and so within professional standards you have the training services that staffed it i guess is at the commander level lead at the commander level that is her who is the current commander of the training division of the current commander for the minneapolis training division is commander dursley horn. last year who is your commander. last year it

is she's now inspector katie blackwell but she was commander katie blackwell last year when she led her training. and she would have been the training commander i'd need 252020 is that right that is correct. there's other divisions within professional standards i think you mentioned internal affairs but there's also an administrative services division is that right yes and what is the administrative services division do minister it services division. can deal with everything from from grants different types of programs that the mid city of minneapolis is and barking upon. employee personnel matters as well also you know business software and equipment technology is software yes body cameras milestone cameras yes we met jeff through

google and that's where he works is that right yes lieutenant rules are that yes. i'd like to talk to you a little bit about the minneapolis police department reacting to calls for service . the role of the minneapolis police department is generally to is to serve the communities law enforcement needs is that right that's rare and most requests for service come in through the 911 system is that right yes you respond your officers respond to different calls for service could you please describe the types of calls for service minneapolis police department commonly responds to. calls for service can absolutely range from everything from 10 a trouble to a lot of party dispute to domestic assault to shooting in t. to homicide so it can it can really range from a wide variety of types of calls people will call to report

a crime and request assistance. people also call to record general emergencies yes they can mean what type of emergencies. medical emergencies. they can request calls for service for that oftentimes we have community who are calling because it may be 3 o'clock in the morning and they don't know of any other service or who will respond but they will call us for for those types of situations as well and i suppose what constitutes an emergency is in the eye of the caller someone that is very good but nonetheless am p.d.t. response yes. do you know approximately how many call. as for service the minneapolis police department receives a. couple 100000 and then we also have officers that we. categorize is self initiated activity so that could mean an officer happens speak

driving through a neighborhood and see something and reports out on their radio that they're going to look into it so so it's a combination but it's a it's a lot of calls. and generally people don't call the police department to say hey everything's going great just wanted you to know they have something that they want you to do he said yes. it sounds then the conspiracy there's more to policing than just going out and arresting people you provide a broad spectrum of of policing services to the community you know i would actually say that. the actual law enforcement part is probably pretty small compared to most of the types of calls our officers are being called to address and deal with. so we've touched on a police training your own personal police training and. how police training is

dispensed i guess through the professional standards bureau and like you to describe that a little bit further if you are you generally familiar with the types of training that the minneapolis police department provides its officers inside. where does this training take place. we have the large facility located north minneapolis which we call our special operations center and that is where the the vast majority of our required training takes place is the special operations center that a dedicated building only for training purposes. it's primarily dedicated for training purposes yes. and i think you testified in. supervised by a commander. i'd like you to tell the jury a little bit about when now currently training begins for minneapolis police officer who is hired on to the department. for

a new officer who's hired on the department that 1st initial orientation toward training begins at the academy and that again is overseen by the commander of the training unit and. we actually have a class currently in place now at the. academy at the socket and so that 1st initial indoctrination to our cademy occurs. during that 1st part of the training at the academy fair to see that the training that's provided to minneapolis police officers can be generally divided into 2 categories pre-service training and post service training and training yes and the pre-service training would include the academy that you just talked about is there right that is correct and then post service training is the continuing education that you testified about previously yes. so once again focus on the academy training how many cadets do you generally have

a given time per class. well we it's been a mixture of recruit classes in a cadet class i would say that we average in terms of recruit class numbers around 30. kids might be 20 to 25 so now i'm going to ask you to just just define some terms a little and explain to the jury the difference between a recruit and a cadet. recruits are typically individuals who've already been focused laser focused on a career being a minneapolis police officer is what i wanted to do they typically have already at least their 2 year criminal justice or law enforcement degree. most have completed their required skills training. cadet was. was really created to capture diversity. of candidates and so the kid dead might

have individuals who may have had a psych psychology degree but it's really streamlining him and it's a little lengthier. process but it's really getting them on board so that they meet the state requirements the post requirements to get to be hired and so the kid program was a wonderful way for us to capture diversity within our police department and so but they both once their programs are finish their both classes whether recruiter cadet you are ready to successful becoming minneapolis police officer you also take lateral candidates yes lateral candidates we certainly had hirings of laterals in the years past yes and do those individuals also go through a similar training as a recruit. yes the laterals can it's usually much smaller in like the time just because laterals are individuals who have already served as police officers perhaps

in another jurisdiction or another part of the state prophecy which will be more detailed description from another witness was just at a very high level can you describe what the trainees do with the academy during his 3 service training. trainees at the academy during pre-service they're really it's their 1st indoctrination into this world of being a police officer so they're being taught about city and statutory laws they're being. trained on procedural justice critical thinking defensive tactics. they're having community members come in speak to them about different aspects whether it relates to. things that are called. within our city. technology is a is a huge piece of that learning how to write reports on our computers so it's there really getting that basic indoctrination into the minneapolis police department as

far as the methodology. is it typically classroom to read to you also have a practical application how does that work yeah it's a layered approach it's it's both the practical academic studying. examinations that occur but it's also scenario based and so there's scenarios that they will go through and whether that crisis intervention training or other aspects so it's a layered approach to the training and in this pre-service training that once the officer. or candidate has completed the pre-service training what's the next phase before becoming a fully functioning police officer. once they complete that training they're making sure that they've really met the requirement for the licensure for the minnesota post board and then ultimately they're going to get

sworn in and hired on as minneapolis police officers are you familiar with a program called the field training program or f.b.o. design is that part of the pre-service training that would be yes can you just give us a general description of what the f t o or field training programs. mean apple's field training officer program is really once the recruit. has gone through that series of pre-service training it's now teaming them up with a mentor basically and they are being gauged in judged on certain performance measures and it takes course over a period of several months use about 5 months and they're given instruction they're seeing how well. they are able to handle certain types of situations calls. and they're also having feedback not only from the f t o but they're also having conversations with the supervisors in the training bureau

and seeing how they're doing their assessing their progression in the event. a candidate is not progressing they're making sure that their support mechanisms for that we're the extra help and yes at times we have candidates that don't successfully complete it and so but that's really getting them to the point where they can alternately. be really on their own to be able to function on their own as a sworn minneapolis police officer. and so once they've completed the field training program and i think is you know per your testimony of us far the training doesn't stop there you have post requirements that you have to fulfill every year in your in your post service training as i write this script and is that delivered through a series of in-service training center current the same training facility you mention. is that training optional of that kind of office or

go somewhere else to get there post credits and skip the in-service or is that training required that training is required and you do you have to take a yes i do what type of training is provided. in the post service training. some of the training that is provided in the annual. training could be critical incident training c.a.t. training. crisis intervention training training yes crisis intervention training defensive tactics. basic c.p.r. refer stayed. those are those are some of the types of training that is required annually. even though they've already you know stencil even trained on. all of these things before you're still doing the same training and you only discredit. a lot of that is just to reemphasize the importance of the training itself muscle

memory. because all of our department members are being taught the same thing. we may have officers that are working in a patrol capacity one year and the next year they may be investigations but they may be called to assist upon and so it's making sure that all of us have that basic necessary core fundamental training to better serve me and it is so if you could give the jury kind of an idea of the amount of time that is spent training your officers. it's it's it's a lot we put a lot of time. energy. in resources into our training do that last year. the minneapolis police department in terms of our mandatory in-service training in leadership training we probably spent about a half $1000000000.00 in our pre-service and then service training that's probably about $45000000.00 so training is absolutely vital essential to us as

a department. and officers are paid while they're being trained is that correct yes they are. and want to be fair to see that part of the objective of training is to impart minneapolis police department all policies on to the officers that they know what the what those policies are and are you able to apply them yes it's important through training that we're reemphasizing that not only are policies but really are values as a police department and what our community expects of us to help our officers it's also to help our communities at the same time. as a former patrol officer who's use force put handcuffs on people i mean you understand the reality of what policing is like when you're actually on duty is that right then screw you also testified.