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Jim Watson
07-14-2020, 12:54 PM
Minneapolis, Minn. - Attorney Ron Meuser, Jr. of the law firm Meuser, Yackley, and Rowland P.A. has represented thousands of individuals with their workplace disability and injury claims and specializes in supporting public employees and law enforcement officers eligible for PERA benefits due to physical and mental disabilities, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Today Meuser issued the following statement:

“In the last six weeks, over 150 police officers have started the process of filing physical and mental disability claims, the majority of which encompass officers suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This is an astronomical number of people given there are approximately 850 officers within the Minneapolis Police Department.

https://www.thetacticalwire.com/releases/d04e2c8e-542e-4b24-9aa4-acc39d88ea0f?fbclid=IwAR1QQd-dLxVplQfcz5Ugr-2Lb68cLu1dvJR4636EWcN7OC51uv34InLWU4o

blues
07-14-2020, 01:02 PM
This is an astronomical number of people given there are approximately 850 officers within the Minneapolis Police Department.



Well, it is the "North Star State".

(Can't say they aren't getting what they deserve after throwing their officers under the bus.)

Poconnor
07-14-2020, 03:31 PM
What can you expect? Talk about defunding the police and you are surprised they want to leave? Soon it will be like clockwork orange; hiring criminals for policing

Borderland
07-14-2020, 04:31 PM
Not uncommon for public service employees to file claims before departing. Not saying that some aren't justified but my feeling is if they were up front about it they would have filed the claims sooner. Where I worked it was almost a given that anyone who was being forced out was going to file some type of claim before they were terminated. Usually had something to do with their health. I saw people who could no longer do their job but waited for the agency to start the termination process before they filed a claim. Sometime that was a two year process.

LockedBreech
07-14-2020, 04:44 PM
What a surprise, demean, belittle, and brutalize the 99% of police officers doing their job well and honestly, do it with the full support and endorsement of brands, organizations, celebrities, politicians, and media, and it turns out it has an effect on that group? Truly unexpected.


'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

Wise_A
07-15-2020, 01:26 PM
Soon it will be like clockwork orange; hiring criminals for policing

I can already tell you that there are departments hiring guys with intent-to-sell charges on their sheets.

Nephrology
07-15-2020, 01:35 PM
Not surprised at all.

Coyotesfan97
07-15-2020, 02:18 PM
I can already tell you that there are departments hiring guys with intent-to-sell charges on their sheets.

Because that worked out so good for Metro Dade and LAPD. What a surprise you lower hiring standards and you get Rampart. Here’s my shocked face. :rolleyes:

Lex Luthier
07-15-2020, 03:26 PM
I pray daily that the Minneapolis City Council gets a debilitating group case of the Rampant Bollock-itis and has to be replaced by actual thinking adults.

TAZ
07-15-2020, 03:34 PM
I pray daily that the Minneapolis City Council gets a debilitating group case of the Rampant Bollock-itis and has to be replaced by actual thinking adults.

I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one. These folks are imbeciles of epic proportions. They will double down on stupid if challenged. Worst thing is that the voters will likely support then again.

Best thing to happen is all the decent folks GTFO and leave the place to burn to the ground like Detroit, Flint... I just hope they leave their stupid liberal ideas behind when they eject.

Catshooter
07-18-2020, 09:59 PM
I started feeling bad for the decent people there, and then I wondered: how many of them have been voting all these years?


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olstyn
07-18-2020, 10:17 PM
I started feeling bad for the decent people there, and then I wondered: how many of them have been voting all these years?

Plenty of people work in or otherwise visit Minneapolis regularly but live in the surrounding area rather than Minneapolis itself, and thus do not have an opportunity to vote for the Minneapolis city council, mayor, etc. I can have no impact whatsoever on those elections, but their consequences affect me because my employer is based in Minneapolis, *and* because problems that start in Minneapolis spill outward.

Catshooter
07-18-2020, 10:23 PM
I understand. I feel for people in your position, for sure.


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RoyGBiv
02-15-2021, 11:33 AM
File this under "Only slightly surprised" (that it happened so soon, and by a unanimous vote).

Minneapolis push to defund police backfires after residents complain of slow response times, increase in crime. (https://www.foxnews.com/us/minneapolis-defund-police-backfires-residents-complain-slow-response-times-increase-crime)
The City Council on Friday voted unanimously to approve $6.4 million in additional funding for the police department.


The City Council on Friday voted unanimously to approve $6.4 million in additional funding that police had requested.

DC_P
02-16-2021, 09:58 AM
If only someone outside PF could have seen this coming...