Back in June, David Zimmer and I toured the infamous block in North Minneapolis featuring Winner Gas and Merwin Liquors. The intersection of Broadway and Lyndale is much in the…
The recent announcement by Attorney General Keith Ellison, that his office has opened a civil investigation into Merwin Liquors and Winner Gas at Lyndale and West Broadway to hold the…
If our own struggles to control crime and violence aren’t enough to convince Minnesotan’s how disastrous the progressive led anti-police movement has been, Seattle might provide for a convincing comparative…
This past weekend Minneapolis experienced one of its most violent stretches in recent memory. 18 people were shot, and 3 died between Thursday and early Monday morning. 3 of the shootings…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that Democratic candidates are “calibrating” their crime message during this election season. The headline reads, Minnesota Democrats embrace police-friendly message amid crime concerns The article…
As a Minneapolis kid who served 33 years in and around the city as a Sheriff’s deputy, I am not just troubled by the level of violence in my hometown,…
In November 2021, Minneapolis voters soundly rejected a proposal put forth by the City Council to replace the police department with a new Department of Public Safety. This came after…
As we have noted repeatedly, Minnesota’s crime rate (Part 1 crimes) has surpassed the national average for the first time in our history in 2020. Minnesota is a high crime…
Violence marred the Labor Day holiday weekend. Saturday’s shooting inside the state fairgrounds, and Monday night’s shooting just outside the fairgrounds overshadowed Sunday’s quintuple shooting/triple murder in St. Paul. Unfortunately,…
“Minnesotan’s tolerance for crime is incredibly low.” Gov. Walz, 8/28/22 As it should be, Governor. On Sunday at the Minnesota State Fair, Governor Walz made several claims about Minnesota’s crime…
When MFF indiscriminately pays the bail for a defendant, it subverts this carefully balanced system of individual bail evaluation. This harms our collective safety.
“I have no business understanding this better than you.” U of M student addressing the lack of public safety on campus to university and public safety leadership On Wednesday evening…
Center of the American Experiment has released it’s 2022 Minnesota crime briefing. You can read it here. The policy briefing includes confirmed 2021 BCA uniform crime report stats and many 2022…
The anti-police rhetoric that has resonated with far too many in recent years is manifesting itself in a critical way – assaults on our peace officers. Data available in the…
Interest in judicial performance is growing — and rightfully so. There are far too many examples of judges departing from sentencing guidelines, or issuing unreasonably low bail/conditions, which place criminals…
In response to COVID 19, congress and the Trump and Biden administrations overreacted and hastily distributed $5,000,000,000,000 in loans and grants to millions of Americans through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief,…
Minneapolis leadership has failed the citizens and business owners of South Minneapolis. Two years after the death of George Floyd the city continues to capitulate to activist groups over plans…
This afternoon, the state of Minnesota published 2021 data on crime. Sadly, it’s more of the same. Last month we reviewed the trends in violent crime in Minnesota and took…
Harkening the historic “Smokey the Bear” and “Keep America Beautiful” public service ad campaigns of the 1970’s, the National Police Association has unveiled the “Comply Now, Complain Later” campaign. See…
On Wednesday, August 10, the Minneapolis City Council’s Public Health and Safety Committee received an update from police investigative and intelligence representatives. The hearing can be viewed in its entirety…
The U.S. Sentencing Commission is a bipartisan body that studies and develops sentencing policies for the federal courts. It also serves as a resource for congress, the executive branch, and…
Thursday morning St. Paul Police Officer Bill Beaudette displayed remarkable courage in saving the lives of 4 young children left alone in a duplex that caught on fire. All in…
While facing a huge docket of backed up cases, Renville County’s new prosecutor is showing defendants that crime won’t pay.
Public safety and political activism are on a collision course in the Twin Cities.