I'm very glad to be in Minneapolis to have been chosen. I think that the greatest problem that the Minneapolis Police Department faced was actually saw it before I got here. I would love to claim credit for it a Chinese proverb goes that success has many parents failure is an orphan. But in fact the Deep politicization of the Minneapolis Police Department took place before I got here and it took place. Suite or events won the charter Reform Bill in terms of the of the selection of the chief and number two are the camp the mayoralty campaign wear me a phrase job in his own words making a virtue of necessity astrud the involvement of the police department in politics and took it out of the spoil system.But I think it's an issue that we have to understand because it's a very complex issue Every Act of government is a political act and to say that you're going to take the politics out of the police department is to say nothing. You have to be very specific and understand your terms and I think what we mean by taking politics out of the police department is to remove it from the spoils system so that we can understand the various roles and legitimize them the roles of the mayor and the police department and the chief and it's Union the union for example is going to continue to lobby and engage in attempts to pass out a favorable legislation and to influence the legislature and perhaps to endorse candidates and I don't have any great difficulty with that activity as long as it conforms to the law and to the rules of the department and the mayor is Shirley is going to continue to remain in politics and I will continue to deal with political figures in one way or another.Responding to them if you have a problem in your community, it is perfectly legitimate for you to speak to your older man to press them to press the government to press the police department in the sanitation department in the fire department to provide better service and to hold us accountable. It was an older gentleman political Acts. And it is perfectly legitimate for me to to assign resources in One Direction and withdraw them another one ship them about as long as I am doing it on Roblox and that becomes the key question here when we speak of a politics in the police department. I think you were talking about the inner workings of the police department who runs the police department. And by that, I mean that these GIF is the president of the corporation and he has been given his mission by the chairman of the board. Who is the mayor he is held accountable for the results and it says I am the creature of the board of directors the mayor in the city council. They give me my mission they hold me accountable to engage me to continue his debates. They ask questions. They exist on a performance. They emphasize policy DM precise perfectly legitimate. What is not legitimate is to wear to interfere with the inner workings of the department to think in terms of appointments disappointments promotions transfers the disciplinary process that has to be left to the chief Authority and responsibility have to be cool week will one has to be commensurate with the other. And if you want to and if you give the chief to Mission, you've got to give him the freedom to achieve it and that I think is the critical component that we've got to understand it. We're going to understand the issue of politics and the police we got to understand. That it is perfectly legitimate for the mayor to talk to me and to yell at me and to ask me questions and I have for you to be talking to your older man. And for the all the people to come by and ask me questions in the hold me accountable for the results in the Press me for one thing or another that is perfectly legitimate. And and for the world of the Union is a kind of monstrous spoil system that perhaps Private Industry could never tolerate for very long because you have quarterly reports and the prophet and the profit motive and margins and and supervision and a lot of other accountability in the public service. It's very very difficult to hold anybody accountable for anything and it is very very easy to take an organization and make it your private property in do with it anything you want. I didn't spoil system what you have is a situation. Where the ends come in and they gain ownership of a department. You cannot evaluate whether that department is being run badly or well. and all the aliens are in all the outs are out of a is elected as friends become of the bosses be going to endurance while and it's Wags aisle, and then when you get selected all the A's are out and the bees are in and what happens if they gain ownership of it over and Institution, They they sweep in the Victor sweep out the losses and and performance standards Merrick dedication go out the window and you create a society within a police department where all of the measures by which you live and by which you gauge performance go out the window become suddenly irrelevant that develops into a Gastly monstrosity and the members of the Department of the captives of that monster because 90% of them want to do a day's work. I found the Minneapolis Police Department to have very many dedicated people in it. Excellent people functioning people when I was asked, What will be your program is doing the business of this selection process within an hour or two or three of the of the announcement. How Will Rogers and I were the finalists in this competition Minneapolis. Press was all over my living room all over my house. And I'm sure Howard Rogers house in Cincinnati asking questions probing and there was a very healthy component in that process a tight end a process between the TV denominations and the selection process because during that time a great deal investigation goes on the investigative reporters day or every single enemy that I've ever developed in every friend was interviewed in question. I told my wife have some great looking young woman doesn't come forward with a kid saying this is his now. It's never going to happen. I need house. So she felt reasonably secure about that while I was in, New York. I received the call and obviously I wanted the job and felt greatly honored and privileged to have been selected and they called me by telephone and they said that we have just asked how would Rogers what his program would be for the Minneapolis Police Department where he could be selected? What do you say? What are we your program and the any gave us his program? I said, I don't have any program and I didn't I said I would I assume that the people to Minneapolis know what the problems are. They going to know where the solutions are going to be and I hope to listen to them and learn with them and together begin to Fashion some kind of a solution to the problems our respective of the political considerations favoritism in the other nonsense that has ruled the department for very long time. That's why I did not have a program in sure. You know when I get came here within 10 minutes, every other problems have been recited through me about a hundred and twenty seven of them two solutions are 2223 problem over the next six months are going to beat the short out the problems in to attempt to prioritize them and to sort out of the solutions into attempt to establish which of the usual ones in which you're not but it's going to be done by the members of the Minneapolis Police Department dedicated. Selfless hard-working individuals smart effective at each department tends to develop its own culture three, although you can you can actually announced the generalization like police police officers tend to be the same the world over there, which is one of the reasons why I apply apply for the Moscow job as well as the Minneapolis job to be the same the world over organizations tend to assume cultural differences, simply because different places and bombarded by different experiences. So I did not want to bring a package of carpetbagging your bag of tricks from New York City and poison wanted Minneapolis Police Department that might easily resisted. And in fact, I did not encounter. Remember the Minneapolis Police Department. Although I was back and forth and terms of the interviews and so on save one briefing I did not encounter a single member the Minneapolis Police Department in wooden until I have been sworn in and then I called a command conference the wall of the higher-ranking officers and I said, I am meeting you as an inside of I didn't want to come here as an outside. I am now an inside a working with you to resolve the problems and whatever else happens. We write to be assassinated on the spot. You would have to live with the fact that I am the chief of the Minneapolis Police Department and For Better or For Worse face that ugly truth. I think that these Solutions of the problems lie. Well within the year the ability of the department to face, my game is simply to call them as I see them in public life that tends to be the most radical and revolutionary of ideas to tell the simple truth to call events that says you see them to try to do the sensible thing to try to incorporate the wisdom of those around you and to bring It Forward. These are revolutionary ideas worthy of Sacco and Vanzetti because no one no one in the beerocracy really believes in that they always believe what is the short-term gain or what are the politics of Asia? What do I stand to lose? If I do this? Where do I stand to win if I do that? But just happens to be a game. I don't play over the next few months. We will face. Shut a great number of problems. I have an agenda for 1980 and I are one of the things that had ties to happen in a bureaucracy as you become mezmorized by buy temporary crises that tend to deflect your attention from the long-term view. So although everybody comes here believing in training and believing in the development of a program and believing in something that has never been properly Define to me called long-range planning. I don't believe it exists, but then I don't know what it is. If it does exist still most bureaucrats tend to get deflected from their purposes and then to focus upon the short-term crisis. My eye is on January one 1983 and what the Minneapolis Police Department will be looking like on that date and everything that I do and the long-term will be to shape that at the agency in that direction with the people there. That means finding the Moorestown. Did people deepening their education broadening their experience? Developing the manager's training the troops conditioning the supervisors reorganizing the structure analyzing the questions in the issues and taking the issues on as directly, compensation early as possible and and and trying to articulate them in some sensible View. I think I go to tell you one brief anecdote in closing about my experiences in New York so that you will get some example of off how I function. I tend to to work best behind the scenes. I am actually I know that this is a flies in the teeth of your experience because there was a brief time when you couldn't turn on The Boob Tube without seeing my face, so I pontificating on it. Although I didn't see it myself and got for it. I'm not I'm not a media freak with a geek of the week. I prefer to work in the wings and get things done through others and and bring the the forces that are already in place to work positively for whatever it is that we seek to achieve. And in New York on March 16th, 1979 the mayor imposed upon the Transit Police a program that everybody knew could not work at have been fashioned by amateurs who had no nut one of them at spend one single day in police work and believe me police work is a complex business. I spend 27 years at it. I've ridden a six books are probably at the end of this week. It'll be 7 and next week. It'll be on the subject assuming a continuation of my productive juices show book A Week who are 1985 is my motto. I written on the subject with nauticals have commanded everything there is to command in the police department Commander 3000 offices in the Bronx with the second three thousand people in the in the Transit Police. I was the Inspector General the New York City Police Department command of the planning division of communications division Harlem 6th division Traffic Division inspect I could go on and on and on and I don't understand police work very completely. So amateur isn't even met as a president. Can I possibly understand police We're Young yet. They fashion in March 16th, 1979 a program that obviously could not work in any professional looking at it immediately can see its flaws. It was a monstrosity or my boss and his boss said this is brilliant brought it back and posted upon as we all know, it couldn't work ruinously expensive destructive self-defeating counterproductive dysfunctional all the other good things that go with police programs at end of this month. We implemented and within weeks it was clear that it was a disaster. And now there was to be a part of large public hearing and the assembly called a public hearing on April 6th to testify and I want them now. I had not been invited. I had always function in the wings the other Master Mechanic the architect the plan on working in the wings never out front whenever my boss was requested to testify at this hearing feeling a lot of heat. His boss was asked and they came to the breeding conclusion that this once they order bring Tony Bose along and she have a little bit of the spotlight which Muni it was like being offered a brass on the Titanic. I said terrific, let's go. I only have one little one little condition to impose. And a shed in what is that? I said I would not fly. I will tell the truth so they have swallowed hard and huddled for a moment and decided that it was still a spot light with sharing and dragged me along and well, my my boss's boss got off any minute write a statement saying what a dynamite program it was written full of the mail was they ripped them up and down and see set down my boss got up and said it was what a wonderful of dynamite program it was or what I will great success has there been in what a blessing that you may have bestowed upon the city and he said down and I got up and started to read my statement by now. They were the you know, all of the Assembly of people have been falling dead asleep or the one that remained awake said, please don't read your statement. We've had enough statements when you just give over and I said terrific I skipped over the statement and then he started asking me the same series of questions. He had asked my boss and his boss which related to the fact that I obviously had to call it a dynamite successful program. And I said, I'm very sorry Mister assemblyman, but if you read my statement of allowed me to be that you would discover that your questions are predicated on the statement that I did not make So if you read my statement, perhaps you would have stretching your questions a little bit differently. So which has staggered only fell back collapsed to the floor. They brought him to read the statement Innocent by cardi said that's true. Are you you mean to say that you're not here to label this program a success and I said that the mayor in posted program that it doesn't concern any moral values or principles. It did not violate. My conscience is it might have violated my sense of strategy my sense of purpose my sense of what is the intelligent thing to do and then I did not ask for my opinion then I've did not give it and I won't give it here. I said the man wants to know what I think of the program he can ask me and I'll be happy to tell him the meantime, I don't want to upstage him by labeling the program a success or failure in public and I sort of grandstanding him into the ground. I simply refused to tell you what I think of the program and which created quite a stir and the rest is history a PS within six months all three of us were fired. Play for different reasons. What it what I what I wanted to illustrate is quite simply that the very simple that you can live by simple rules, but they can get very complex and practice and I was on the great pressure the label that program a success and refused to do so simple rule is tell the truth. I will administer the oath of the Minneapolis Police Department through simple rules that I am the chief and that no one is going to control its inner workings that if an officer is out there trying to do his job in good faith. I will be in understanding and sympathetic. But if he does right I will back him up 100% and will back her up 100% that if they make an honest mistake will be understanding sympathetic and as helpful as I can be either they make a bad faith that I will divert their throats and they understand that and then we will attack brutality and we will attack corruption and we were together reformed at the apartment and bring it into a premier agency. Am I I will be on January one 1983 the Minneapolis Police Department being regarded as one of the leading professor. Agencies in the country a test bed for experimentation for Innovation for Progress intelligent managers who have been well trained and experienced were able to rule themselves and don't have to reach into the Sodom and Gomorrah the East to bring Gaye loving individuals into strange cities, and hopefully I will liberate them from that.