“Our Community Will Take Care Of It”
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on January 6, 2023
An important component of the program, stressed from the start, is that it is community-owned, operated under NRRC and guided by a community advisory board.
This was of huge importance to both the SEIU security guards — whose work is usually in benefit of corporations — and North Minneapolis residents wary of the state. “The idea was that the more we have ownership, the more we’ll be safe, because our community will take care of it,” Nammacher says.
“One of the issues with receiving 90% or more of city funding to . . .