Recorded (5/20/2022) and Uploaded (5/25/2022)
In this Special Interview I speak with Marjaan Sirdar about investigative journalism of Target, Minneapolis Police and the Downtown 100 program that was used to police the lines of race and class in downtown Minneapolis. In multiple pieces Sirdar has provided ongoing coverage of this public-private partnership used to criminalize mostly homeless youth in Downtown Minneapolis. And this program has already been set up in other cities using Minneapolis as a model for criminalizing poor people.
You can read more from Sirdar on Unicorn Riot:
Here ------(21st Century Jim Crow in the North Star City – A Series)--> https://unicornriot.ninja/21st-century-jim-crow-a-series/
You can also catch Marjaan Sirdar's podcast
here ----(People Power Podcast)---> https://www.youtube.com/c/Season2PeoplePowerPodcast/videos
This article from 2006 in Washington Post was also mentioned in which Amy Klobuchar talked about Target demanding harsher penalties for low level crime -----(Retailer Target Branches Out Into Police Work Minneapolis Forensics Lab, Donations Help Law Enforcement Agencies)-----> https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2006/01/29/retailer-target-branches-out-into-police-work-span-classbankheadminneapolis-forensics-lab-donations-help-law-enforcement-agenciesspan/32273b10-40fa-4db4-a4a1-88b77eafb891/
Here is another article from Bloomberg from 2021 that also discusses the relationship that Target Corp. had with police agencies which it called "unlike those of any other U.S. corporation. ": https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-25/how-target-tgt-police-surveilled-black-neighbors-in-inner-cities
You can also check out our previous SNV Special Interview on Youth Homelessness here ---> https://soundcloud.com/socialistnewsandviews/snv-special-interview-youth-homelessness
