Barbara Schneider Foundation | Eliminate the criminalization of people with mental illness through positive training and education. Eliminate the criminalization of people with mental illness through positive training and education. August 2022 MOU between UCMT and MPD UCMTMPD MOU Updated 832022 This Memorandum of Understanding MOU is a living document. It began life as the 2003 MOA between the Minneapolis Police Department MPD under Chief Robert Olson and the Unity Community Mediation Team UCMT led by Ron Edwards and Clyde Bellecourt. It was signed at the Urban League Building on Plymouth and Penn Avenues in North Minneapolis on December 4 2003 after two years of meetings and negotiations between the MPD and the UCMT in a mediation process led by the Community Relations Service of the United States Department of Justice CRS.