Murder and Mayhem on our Light Rail Last Friday evening a 33-year-old man was shot and killed on the Metro Transit light rail at University and Hamline in St. Paul…
Multiple media outlets have reported that United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, of Maple Grove, Minnesota, was shot and killed this morning outside a Manhattan hotel in what authorities are…
A federal fugitive stabbed a teenage employee of the Carver Fleet Farm Last week at 2 p.m., Gerald Hudson, 31, of Kansas City, walked into the Fleet Farm in Carver…
I’ll be blunt. The news of Matt Gaetz’s withdrawal from consideration in the Attorney General nomination process is a relief. Our Nation’s Attorney General must be a person of impeccable character. While…
Information surfaces about dramatic staffing crisis in Hennepin County Attorney’s Office Alpha News broke a story this week that confirms rumors that have existed for the past two years that…
AlphaNews has the story of the incident which occurred near campus earlier this month, under the headline: U of M student dies after being struck by vehicle, alleged driver facing…
A new report released today from Center of the American Experiment pushes back on the widely accepted narrative that Minnesota’s criminal justice system is biased against black offenders. In fact,…
Baxter has become at least the fourth Minnesota city to prohibit homeless encampments on public property this year. The Crow Wing County city followed through on a summer work shop…
Hennepin County Jail ordered to reduce inmate population to 600 Following a recent biennial inspection of the Hennepin County Jail by Department of Corrections (DOC) inspectors, the DOC has ordered…
Woman succumbs to gunshot injuries from last week — becomes the 8th murder victim in the past 10 months at or around a Minneapolis homeless encampment Last week we reported…
Another day, another mass shooting in Minneapolis. This morning’s occurred in Dinkytown, the local neighborhood adjacent to the University of Minnesota’s flagship campus. This one caught the attention of local…
Minneapolis records the 7th murder in and around homeless encampments in 10 months This past weekend three people were fatally shot, and three others were wounded in two separate shooting…
We’ve written a couple of times about the horrific double murder that took place last December in a Dinkytown cigar store. Royal Cigar and Tobacco was the scene of the…
Minneapolis man’s violent crime spree leaves one dead and another injured in outstate Minnesota. On Tuesday, a 25-year-old Minneapolis man named Ameer Matariyeh assaulted his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend…
The dilemma over what to do about homelessness plagues cities of every size in every state. Homeless camps and associated risks to public safety have been routinely allowed in public…
Unreported FBI crime data adjustments under scrutiny — A number of conservative outlets reported this week that the FBI had quietly updated its 2022 crime data sometime after releasing the…
American Experiment’s public safety policy fellow David Zimmer sat down for a conversation with Representative Paul Novotny, the Minority Lead of the Minnesota House Public Safety committee. Enjoy learning more…
Vice Presidential candidate and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was on Shannon Bream’s show on Fox News on Sunday and repeatedly suggested the U.S. and Minnesota were experiencing a 50-year low…
A couple of times last year I wrote about the effort by Hennepin County to convert aging area motels into homeless shelters. One of these was the old Metro Inn…
A jury in St. Paul delivered its verdict today in the weeklong trial of Derrick John Thompson, son of former state Rep. John Derrick Thompson (DFL-St. Paul, b. 1971). The…
The following public safety news made headlines this past week. I offer this summary and insight: Minneapolis juveniles arrested after armed robbery spree. Six Minneapolis juveniles aged between 11-14 years…
The son of the former state legislator is currently on trial for three federal drug and gun counts. The federal case arises from that same June 2023 car crash that…
The federal trial involving gun and drug charges against Derrick John Thompson is on the docket for 9 a.m. Monday morning in courtroom 3A in downtown St. Paul. So far,…
The following public safety issues made headlines this past week. I offer this summary and insight: Random execution-style murder in Lowertown St. Paul. On Wednesday 9/25/24, a local artist, Carrie Shobe…