DMNA Code of Conduct Survey Overview
The Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association (DMNA) is soliciting input
from persons who live, work and play in downtown Minneapolis to assist it in
developing Standards of Behavior for our Downtown community. Once input has
been secured from the community, DMNA will compile the Standards and will communicate
them to you and to law enforcement officers, prosecutors, judges and our other
local elected officials.
Why should we develop these Standards? There are at least four reasons to do
so:
- Developing these Standards provides an opportunity for all of us who participate
in life in downtown Minneapolis to articulate what we think is important for
a safe, exciting and inviting Downtown. By participating in this survey, you
can help to define the culture of our city’s center.
- The creation of Standards will make it clearer what behavior is and what
behavior is not acceptable to us. The streets of downtown Minneapolis belong
to those of us who care about our city and participating in this survey is
an opportunity to take a stand in favor of making Downtown kind of place we
want it to be.
- Once developed, we will communicate the standards to broadly to law enforcement
personnel, elected officials and others to inform their decision-making. For
instance, if the community determines that loud mufflers are a major concern,
DMNA can work with the police department to develop strategies for reducing
that disturbance. If maintaining unobstructed walkways is a standard, we will
work with the police and others to ensure that sidewalks are kept clear. We
will also develop strategies for broadly communicating these standards to
those who live, work and play Downtown so that, through their own behavior,
they can become enforcers of the Standards.
- By developing Standards of Behavior, we can focus on the behavior of
individuals…what the individual is doing as opposed to who the individual
is. We hope that this will create a system of enforcement based on observable
behavior…whether or not the behavior is technically a crime.
The Code of Conduct/Community Expectations has been prepared using the nearly
1,300 responses the DMNA received through the survey process this summer. The
DMNA plans to use the survey to identify new strategies as it moves toward preparing
its NRP Phase II plan. See contact information on the bottom of the index
page.
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