A record number of people have applied for a spot on a new oversight panel for the Minneapolis police department.

City staff received more than 160 applications for the new Community Commission on Police Oversight, created last fall by the City Council. It was the most for any city committee or commission since at least 2010, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The 15-member board will be tasked with reviewing investigations of allegations of police misconduct.

"One hundred sixty seems unbelievable," Michael Friedman, chair of the Minneapolis Police Civilian Review Authority, a previous police oversight body from 2003 through 2005, said, the Star Tribune reported. "I can't remember even more than 15 applying."

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"There is still intense interest in police reform and police oversight here in Minneapolis," Dave Bicking, a board member of Communities United Against Police Brutality, an activist group that monitors and protests police misconduct, told Fox News Digital. "And I think that is getting stronger, if anything, because we've gone almost three years without any significant positive changes and people are grasping at anything that might be possible to finally get some movement on that."

Bicking, who described the relationship between the community and the police department as "bad," was one of the applicants to try for a spot on the panel. He said he didn't expect to be picked because he would "rock the boat."

The Minneapolis Police Department attracted national outrage in the summer of 2020, when former police officer Derek Chauvin was filmed kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, for nine minutes, before he went still. Three other officers on the scene failed to intervene.

The police-involved killing sparked protests in major cities across the country and a federal bill, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which stalled in Congress. The legislation would address the use of force, racial profiling, and more. After the bill failed, President Biden signed an executive order that banned choke holds and limited the use of no-knock warrants for federal officers. It also required reports to a database of misconduct from federal officers, and encouraged, but did not require, similar reports from local law enforcement agencies.

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Chauvin was convicted of murder and another former officer pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.

Floyd's death and the subsequent protests appeared to have an impact on the city's law enforcement recruitment. Police spokesman Garrett Parten said last October that only 57 people applied to the Minneapolis police force in 2022, down from 292 applicants in 2019. 

Bicking observed that community frustrations with the city's law enforcement are only "growing."

"The Minneapolis Police Department is just not making a lot of friends, including with folks who you would have thought would be maybe more happy with the police department," he said. 

Fox News Digital's Patrick Hauf contributed to this report.

A Utah "powercloud" avalanche was caught on camera this week. 

The video, also shared by the Utah Avalanche Center on Monday, shows the moment massive white clouds race down Provo's Mount Timpanogos toward a group of skiers. 

Those skiers include user @th0mas.farley, who shared the video. The group was at Sundance Resort.

"What the heck, bro. That's one of the biggest avalanches I have ever seen in real life," the user said. 

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"It's gonna pummel us, bro," he said. "Dude, I hope nobody's down on Boot Hill."

The white cloud then engulfs the snow-covered ridge where the video is shot from. 

The Utah Avalanche Center said that the avalanche was natural and came from the "Middle Finger" on the mountain. 

"Avalanche debris stopped in the dry lakes area adjacent to the ski area, but the dust cloud carried for hundreds of yards," it said in a Facebook post. 

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Sundance Resort tweeted Monday night that the avalanche carried into a region outside its ski area boundaries. 

"Footage shows the dust/wind cloud reaching guests who were watching but no one was hurt as deposition area never reached our boundaries," it said. "We remained open all day and hope you will join us tomorrow for more amazing skiing and boarding. We are very grateful for our amazing ski patrol who work so hard to ensure our mountain is safe."

Farley said that while the avalanche did not make it to the resort boundaries, the powder cloud did, and kept the group covered in the snow for one or two minutes, according to Storyful.

Timpanogos, which is located in the Wasatch Mountain Range, stands at 11,750 feet. It is the second-highest mountain in the range. 

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The Timpanogos avalanche was one of three reported in the state on Monday, including one in Salt Lake that was caused by a skier. 

There have been 21 avalanche fatalities in the U.S. in the 2022 to 2023 season, including one that was reported in Utah's Upper Weber Canyon earlier in the month, according to a list of avalanche fatalities compiled by the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. From 2021 to 2022, there were 17 fatalities.