The debate descended into some personal attacks and became sort of a proxy war for bigger political battles at city hall.

Emily Koski was the Minneapolis City Council's only regular swing vote last year, dividing her support evenly between Mayor Jacob Frey's allies and his left-wing critics on the 102 closest votes — but most other council members rarely sided with Frey.

A proposal by members of a Minneapolis City Council committee to transfer more than $1 million worth of funding for violence intervention work from the city to Hennepin County was forwarded on Monday to the full council.

Minneapolis City Council members are proposing to move some of the city’s violence prevention programming to Hennepin County, having lost confidence in the embattled neighborhood safety department (NSD) at city hall.

After a contentious, days-long debate over the future of violence intervention services, Minneapolis City Council on Thursday voted to delay any decision on shifting group violence intervention programs to Hennepin County.

The Minneapolis city council voted not to move $1.1 million of violence prevention funding to the county after voting to postpone making a decision -- for now.

After days of heated debate, the Minneapolis City Council unanimously agreed Thursday to table a controversial proposal to delay $1.2 million of funding for violence