Minneapolis City Council Member Aisha Chughtai, chair of the Budget Committee, describing what she sees as unsustainable police spending. Mayor Jacob Frey has proposed an 11.3 percent property tax levy increase — the largest since at least 2000 — to close a $32 million structural budget gap driven by rising personnel costs. The increase would add $409 a year to the tax bill of a median-valued home and eliminate 100 city positions. Minneapolis became the center of the national "defund the police" debate after George Floyd's death in 2020. Now a council member is deploying the same language against the department itself. (Star Tribune)