Are you surprised?

 Outside of Minneapolis and conservative news outlets, you won't see much about this.  Most of the top hits I got searching for "Minneapolis police funding" were about the money they cut last year, not the most recent news.

Minneapolis to spend $6.4 million to hire more police 

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