[2] Minnesota was the first U.S. state to introduce an occupational licensing system for law enforcement officers.
[5] POST is also tasked with revoking licenses of police officers found guilty of felony offences (automatic revocation), or other crimes or offensive conduct, but an investigative report showed that this happens much less frequently than similar-sized jurisdictions such as Oregon and describes POST as "lax oversight".
[3] On July 6, 2016, Philando Castile, a 32-year-old black man, was shot and killed by police officer Jeronimo Yanez during a routine traffic stop.
[6] The Board looked into the killing, and determined Yanez had only received a total of two hours of de-escalation training in his five years on the force.
The legislature changed the regulations to require police officers to undergo at least 16 hours of crisis intervention training.
[1] According to the Star Tribune, the Board started a review of their licenses to work as police officers on June 17, 2020.