The incident On Monday morning at about 2 a.m., Minnesota State Troopers stopped Ricky Cobb II, 33, on I-94 in North Minneapolis for reportedly driving without rear taillights. Once stopped…
The truth about racial disparities in Minnesota’s criminal justice system.
According to the Hennepin County jail roster, Thompson remains in county custody six weeks after the horrific Minneapolis car crash in which five young women were killed. Since our last…
News stories from this past week continue to grow the list of devastating consequences when violent individuals walk free in Minnesota. Last Monday evening, 20-year-old Calon Markus Hatchett was arrested for shooting…
The legislature acted this past session to create a new law defining carjacking as separate and distinct from robbery. It left the decision of ranking the severity of sentences to the…
A new report released today from Center of the American Experiment refutes the widely-accepted narrative that Minnesota’s criminal justice system is biased against black offenders. In fact, the system is…
Last month it looked like a done deal. The Beltrami County Board of Commissioners announced their intention to build a new, half-a-billion dollar jail by a quiet Bemidji neighborhood zoned…
Deaths and drug overdoses continue to mount among the occupants of the homeless camps popping up in Rochester parks, seemingly as fast as the authorities remove them. As city officials…
He also received U.S. citizenship in 2019. Add Mohamad Barakat’s name to the long list of people who shouldn’t have been around to commit mayhem on American soil. Earlier this…
Last summer Minneapolis Mayor Frey announced the hiring of Dr. Cedrick Alexander to lead the newly created Office of Community Safety. Mayor Frey called Alexander’s hire a “seminal moment” in the…
Fargo authorities conducted a follow-up press conference yesterday, as reported in the Fargo Inforum, to update the public with more facts that have been determined in the ambush shooting of several Fargo…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune has a story up about an incident from July 7, in which state Rep. Dan Wolgamott (DFL-St. Cloud) was arrested for DWI in Kanabec County. The…
Metro Transit’s 40-point plan to deter the violent crime and vagrancy plaguing the Twin Cities’ light rail and bus lines continues to flounder a year into the highly publicized security…
On Friday afternoon, July 14, 2023, Fargo police were dispatched to a traffic accident at 25th St. and Ninth Ave South. Officer Jake Wallin, 23, just three months into his police…
DOC settlement with transgender inmate risks the safety of female inmates.
Minnesota’s criminal justice system is unable or unwilling to connect the dots.
Another incident eerily similar to the Derrick Thompson crash: a rented luxury car, a brief but abandoned pursuit by law enforcement, speeds up to 90 MPH, a fatal crash, and…
The beleaguered Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis witnessed more bad luck last evening. The collision of two automobiles at the intersection of Hennepin Avenue and Lagoon saw one of the vehicles…
The Star Tribune reports on “disturbances involving many hundreds of young people across the city late at night on July 4th.” They actually use the word “mayhem” (2nd paragraph). I…
It happens so rarely that you can’t help but notice when it does. Every once in a while, the proverbial little guy prevails over the powers that be — or…
An op-ed piece about the Golden Valley Police Department recently appeared in the New York Times and was reprinted in the Star Tribune. My response to both newspapers follows. In…
The Minneapolis park police have preemptively closed the iconic Stone Arch Bridge during overnight hours through July 5. Independent journalist Rebecca Brannon reports on the mayhem occurring this week that…
Facial recognition technology (FRT) is under fire as part of a civil suit filed by the ACLU yesterday. FRT is an invaluable public safety tool, which should be preserved through reasonable…
Vagrants sleeping in skyways and parking ramps, discarded drug paraphernalia on sidewalks, impromptu campsites in public areas. It’s become an all too familiar scenario, increasingly even in cities outside the…