“Nearly every single sign of a high-risk offender was present in this case,” said Thomas.
A spokesman for the police department didn’t comment after the meeting Tuesday afternoon.
In the four-year period ending in 2022 examined in the study, about one-third of the 11,645 incidents of aggravated assaults in Minneapolis were classified as domestic assaults by police.
The domestic violence study started as a follow-up to a 2017 report from the Minneapolis Police Conduct Oversight Commission — part of the city’s civil rights division — that found only 20% of more than 43,000 domestic violence calls led to reports or arrests. That puts Minneapolis in stark contrast with similar data reported the same year by the Justice Department, which found police throughout the country took a report in 78% of those types of calls on average and 39% led to arrest or charges.
The assessment took three years and cites input from MPD leadership, the Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office, Hennepin County officials, a judge and a range of experts and advocates who work with domestic violence survivors. It also includes anecdotes and quotes from survivors who participated in several focus groups. They are not identified by name.
One survivor described how in May 2022 her partner pressed a gun to her head and later broke her nose by dragging her with his car. She said she called 911 and waited at a gas station with witnesses to the assault, but it took an hour and a half for officers to arrive. In the meantime, her partner stole her car. When police showed up, “I was covered in blood but I think they didn’t think it was serious. He was driving around looking for me. He drove by while police were there, and I pointed him out, but they didn’t do anything.”
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