General Discussion

Only 400 or so would be on duty at any given time. At that number the department is already understaffed, barely able even to keep up with ordinary, everyday law enforcement. One complaint we've had about them here is that unless there's been a hatchet murder with multiple victims you can't get them to show up at all - that's an exaggeration but it's absolutely true that if you've been the victim of a property crime they'll tell you they haven't got time to investigate; all you can do is call 311 and file a report. So now there are 3,000+ ICE goons on the streets - five times as many as the total Minneapolis police force of 600 - doing all kinds of things that are clearly illegal. But the city cops, even if there were enough of them (which there aren't), don't have the authority to stop ICE in most cases, at least when they're ostensibly doing immigration arrests, because ICE has jurisdiction over those operations. The goons would just arrest them, too, if they tried to interfere.