# Minneapolis police chief *Head of the Minneapolis Police Department. Officeholders in this record are Edwin Ryan, Janeé Harteau and Medaria Arradondo.* The Minneapolis police chief heads the Minneapolis Police Department, the municipal police force of [[Minneapolis]], [[Minnesota]].[^1] The record documents the office at two points. The first is Mayor Humphrey's installation of Edwin Ryan as chief during the mayoralty that began in 1945.[^2] The second is Chief Janeé Harteau's departure in July 2017 after the Damond shooting, and her replacement by Medaria Arradondo.[^1] Both documented changes concern who held the office. The record also notes what each change left in place. A project dossier records that Humphrey paired the new chief with a university-taught training requirement and an expanded staff. The dossier describes this template as the ancestor of a later credential-and-board architecture.[^2] The project's timeline entry for 2017 states that replacing the chief did not alter the union contract, the PELRA framework, the [[POST Board]], or what the entry calls "the warrior training".[^1] The record does not establish how the office's duties or structure changed between 1945 and 2017. ## Who Edwin Ryan was installed as chief by Humphrey. According to the dossier, Humphrey was elected Mayor of Minneapolis in June 1945 with 61% of the vote and re-elected in 1947.[^2] The dossier gives Humphrey's instruction to Ryan as "I want this town cleaned up and I mean I want it cleaned up now".[^2] Janeé Harteau held the office until July 2017. The project's timeline records that she was forced to resign over the Damond shooting and that Medaria Arradondo replaced her.[^1] ## What The chief leads the Minneapolis Police Department.[^1] The dossier records three parts of the police reorganization under Humphrey. He installed a new chief. He mandated university-taught racial-sensitivity coursework for officers. He also expanded juvenile and social-work staffing.[^2] ## When - June 1945: Humphrey is elected Mayor of Minneapolis with 61% of the vote.[^2] - Mayoralty, 1945–1948: Humphrey installs Edwin Ryan as chief and mandates university-taught coursework for officers.[^2] - 1947: Humphrey is re-elected. The dossier describes the margin as the largest in the city's history to that point.[^2] - July 2017: Harteau leaves the office over the Damond shooting, and Arradondo replaces her.[^1] ## Why The dossier presents the appointment of Ryan as part of a template: "reform the police department by adding a training requirement and a professionalized staff layer".[^2] The timeline attributes Harteau's departure to the Damond shooting, and the record does not establish further reasons.[^1] The project's timeline describes the 2017 resignation as the first institutional consequence of any Minneapolis Police Department shooting in the sequence it tracks.[^1] ## How In 1945 the change came through the mayor. Humphrey installed a chief, imposed a training mandate on officers, and added staff.[^2] The dossier calls this "the direct ancestor of the credential-and-board architecture" that its Professional Association framework describes.[^2] In 2017 the change was a replacement of the officeholder. The timeline entry lists the structures it left unchanged as the union contract, the PELRA framework, the [[POST Board]], and officer training.[^1] ## In the at-issue record The project's at-issue row AI-Humphrey-031 restates the dossier's account. It says Humphrey installed a chief with an instruction to clean the town up and added a university-taught training requirement for officers.[^2][^3] The row then sets out the project's own argument. It says that "Eighty years later the credential is the gate". It adds that the university writes the curriculum, the licensing board enforces it, and arbitration returns officers who completed it to duty.[^3] The row is anchored to a White House presidential action dated April 2025.[^3] According to the row, that order names the credential-and-arbitration architecture as an accountability obstacle. The text of the order is not carried in this record.[^3] The row rests on a single source, classed as history.[^3] ## In the Minnesota record ### Where The project's timeline places the 2017 change of chief in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[^1] ### Why The project files the 2017 entry under two of its theories: T5 (Due Process) and T10 (Union Insulation).[^1] ## Notes [^1]: MPR News, story on former Minneapolis police chief Janeé Harteau (August 9, 2017). This is the source of project timeline row TL-0861 (July 2017). It covers Harteau's resignation over the Damond shooting and her replacement by Medaria Arradondo. The row's note on what the change did not alter, and its theory tags, are the project's own. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/08/09/janee-harteau-ex-minneapolis-police-chief-interview [^2]: Minnesota wiki project, dossier *HHH_Waverly_Apex_Dossier_2026-09-02.md*, §IV.2, *The Mayoralty (1945–1948)* (September 2, 2026; status validated). It covers Humphrey's 1945 election and 1947 re-election, the installation of Edwin Ryan with the quoted instruction, the officer coursework mandate, and the staffing expansion. The record carries no source URL for this section. [^3]: The White House, presidential action on law enforcement (April 2025). This is the anchor of at-issue row AI-Humphrey-031. It does not itself document the 1945 or 2017 events. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/strengthening-and-unleashing-americas-law-enforcement-to-pursue-criminals-and-protect-innocent-citizens/