Minneapolis city council votes to remove police. But they receive Tax payer funded Private Security? How can they justify this?

Police are funded by taxpayers. The MPD is short of resources due to recent events, so private security was hired. The cost was approximately the same. The council is proposing to revamp public safety, not eliminate it.  If Derek Chauvin can get protection at taxpayer expense, so should the City Council, whether we agree with their proposal or not. I don't know how much this protection for Chauvin prior to his arrest cost the taxpayers.

The counsil voted to disband the police. Then hired private security.

They are short of resources....so spend resources on private security? $63,000 in less than a month for 3 council members? I think resources have been wasted. 

You asked how they justified it. I answered. I am not defending, opposing, or endorsing what they propose. But I do understand that citizens, including public officials, who are receiving credible death threats should be protected (as was Derek Chauvin at taxpayer cost as well). When I said they were short of resources, the resource I meant was police officers, so it made sense to use private security rather than take police away from other duties. To say that public officials are less entitled to protection when their lives are in danger  than private citizens simply because some don't like their politics does not make sense to me. The city has stated that the cost of private vs. police security is about the same. If you think that the City is proposing eliminating public safety when they dismantle the current system, then you need to educate yourself. I'm pretty sure I just wasted my time typing this and I don't plan to engage any further with you on this.

No where did I say the council members were not entitled to the same protection of any other citizen. Of course that assumes the city will be paying for the private security for any other citizen who has received threats as well. 

That said the police say they have no reports of th
reats to the council members. So perhaps they simply skipped asking the police for protection and went straight to the private security company. (That is my geuss based on no police reporting) 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-city-of-minneapolis-is-spending-4-500-a-day-on-private-security-for-its-city-council-after-members-received-threats-amid-votes-to-eliminate-police/ar-BB162o23

This post was edited by my2cents at July 2, 2020 10:47 AM MDT