Off-duty Fees

Off-duty Fees - REIA

Section 1: Background

Does this impact one of the City's Goal Areas

Policy Goals

Operational Goals

Public Safety	Yes
Housing	No
Economic Development	No
Public Services	No
Environmental Justice	No
Built Environment & Transportation	No
Public Health	No
Arts & Culture	No

Workforce	No
Spending	No
Data	Yes
Community Engagement	No

Describe the impact on selected goal areas.

The goal of this legislative directive is to provide comprehensive information to ensure the City of Minneapolis is conducting its off-duty contract work in a way that is equitable and enhances our public safety goals.

Who participated in completing this analysis?

The Ward 2 office upon completing a series of conversations with city staff, public safety experts, community groups, and current and former police officers.

Section 2: Data

LIST THE SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHIES THAT WILL BE IMPACTED AND THE RACIAL DEMOGRAPHICS OF CONSTITUENTS IN THOSE AREAS:

City-wide, impacting all residents.

What does available data tell you about how constituents from BIPOC communities currently relate to the desired outcome as compared to white constituents?

Minneapolis’ Black and Brown residents will be the most impacted in a "pay to play" public safety model that appears to currently exist within the current parameters of how off-duty contracts are conducted. This legislative directive will provide City Council with accurate information and data to inform any necessary policy changes and ensure that they are centering racial equity as it relates to how off-duty police work is conducted.

What data is unavailable or missing? How can you obtain additional data?

Significant data and information is missing related to off-duty police work. A legislative directive passed in January 2023 asked several questions that remain unfilled. The Ward 2 office will continue to work with the legislative department to seek more information about data and potential evaluation practices.

Section 3: Community Engagement

Using the International Association of Public Participation (IAP2) Public Participation Spectrum, which participation strategy(s) was used when engaging those who would be most impacted?

Inform	No
Consult	No
Involve	No
Collaborate	Yes
Empower	No

Describe the Engagement and what have you learned?

Conversations with residents, community groups, and current and former MPD police officers have reiterated that the current off-duty police contract system is not supporting an equitable public safety system. This legislative directive is meant to provide data to understand what are any potential gaps or issues within the system that exacerbate racial inequities.

Section 4: Analysis

How does the outcome for this ordinance, amendment, or policy help the city achieve Racial Equity?

The outcomes of this legislative directive will help inform potential next steps in policy changes to address any racial inequities.

Section 5: Evaluation

How will impacts be measured? What are the success indicators and process benchmarks?

This legislative directive as well as further work with the Policy and Research division will inform measures of success and benchmarks.

How will those who are impacted be informed of progress over time?

Further conversations with the Policy and Research will be required inform measures of success and benchmarks.

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