The stealth passage in the legislative session of a measure legalizing so-called edibles and beverages laced with the intoxicating agent in marijuana supposedly even caught some lawmakers by surprise. To…
Thankfully, the importance of leadership continues to gain momentum in discussions about crime and public safety in Minnesota. The Star Tribune Editorial Board hit on this theme today, though they oddly…
There has been a steady increase in lawlessness felt in the Twin Cities since 2020, when the defund the police movement promoted weeks of rioting and the burning of the…
I had the opportunity to take part in Liz Collin’s podcast this past week. We discussed our crime situation and ways our new policy position at Center of the American…
Violent crime in Minnesota and in particular the metro area has spiked to unacceptable levels over the past two years. Early 2022 data indicates there is no appreciable retreat in the…
The hundreds of protesters out in Duluth to oppose overturning Roe v. Wade were supposedly there to support women. But try telling that to the mother who was terrorized by…
While last week’s Supreme Court decision affecting Roe has received the bulk of the attention, the Court’s decision in NY State Rifle and Pistol Association V. Bruen, Superintendent of New…
The U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings last week involving abortion and gun rights were firm reminders of the important role the Court plays in the balance of government by defending our…
WCCO-TV aired a story on the news Wednesday evening of a homeless encampment along the Midtown Greenway in south Minneapolis. The CBS affiliate even aired drone footage of the site,…
Hennepin County held its annual “State of the County” address on Wednesday morning. The challenges the Board identified were climate change, housing, business and employment — all with an umbrella theme…
The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled this week in favor of Minneapolis citizens who were forced to sue just to ensure the city maintained a proportion of police officers guaranteed in…
As violent crime continues at unacceptable levels in our state, we need leaders who are willing to put us on their shoulders and fight for our collective safety. Our Governor, the…
Earlier this month progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin was ousted from his post in San Francisco per a special recall election. The recall was spurred on by Boudin’s radical anti-prosecution…
On June 5 a state trooper attempted to stop a car for speeding and driving on the shoulder of I-35E in St. Paul. The driver, Pablo Nava Jaimes, 30, of Minneapolis,…
Wednesday evening the Brooklyn Center High School was celebrating graduation when a fight broke out among the six males. Staff and Brooklyn Center police were able to detain two of…
Minneapolis is turning into another two-tiered city — mind-blowing luxury at one end, third-world-style poverty at the other. A recent drive through Minneapolis revealed a city moving in two directions…
Recently compiled data by Center of the American Experiment shows a troubling correlation between Minnesota’s increasing crime rate and its decreasing incarceration rate. In 2020, for the first time in…
We visit the corner of North Lyndale and West Broadway in north Minneapolis. Home of Merwin Liquors and Winner Gas. For those devotees of the @crimewatchmpls Twitter account, the scene…
In an update to our story on the insidious movement of installing progressive prosecutors around the country, one of the key figures in the movement, San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin,…
As the debate over gun control rages on, @CrimeWatchMpls has chronicled 27 local examples of failure to enforce the controls already in place. Each example illustrates the failures of our…
Two years after the George Floyd riots, the station’s ruins sit at the corner of Lake Street and Minnehaha Avenue in central Minneapolis. The tall metal fencing is the only…
In a city on pace to experience 10,000 “shots fired” calls, Friday night’s gun battle on the University of Minnesota’s Fraternity Row stands out. Dramatic video captured much of the…
In 2019, San Francisco voters elected a “progressive” prosecutor named Chesa Boudin, who ran on a promise to bring about “radical change.” The change San Francisco residents received has been…
Better late than never, as far as St. Paul firefighters, cops and other union members are concerned in the case of their months-long challenge to Mayor Melvin Carter’s mandatory COVID…