Mayor Betsy Hodges sits with police Chief Janeé Harteau at a meeting./ CARLOS GONZALEZ
Mayor Betsy Hodges appeared on national television Sunday to talk about police-community relations in Minneapolis, an issue that vaulted the first-term mayor to national prominence last fall following a highly publicized dispute with the city's police union.
Melissa Harris-Perry introduced Hodges as a guest on her eponymous show on MSNBC by mentioning #Pointergate, the Internet firestorm that followed police union chief John Delmonico's controversial comments in a TV news story questioning the mayor's support of police officers.
Hodges said on Sunday:
Hodges, who says she and Delmonico have settled their differences, told Harris-Perry that the two are now "working together to make something like that real."
When pressed for specifics on what officials were doing to regain public trust, Hodges pointed to a recently-released U.S. Department of Justice report calling for the Minneapolis Police Department to overhaul its system for identifying and weeding out problem officers – "to make sure that issues get caught before they become problems," as she put it.
Of the department's Community Service Officer program, she said:
Watch the full interview below: