Last week, Hennepin County law enforcement leaders sent a letter to Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman asking for immediate assistance and increased partnership across a range of criminal justice issues.…
Minneapolis is still on the hook to replenish its police force.
From the time of our founding, George Washington observed that “[t]he administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.” Of course, it is the people who work within the…
Despite an attempt to quickly put his DUI conviction in the rearview mirror, Hennepin County Sheriff David Hutchinson faces increasing pressure to resign amid new questions about his conduct in…
Center of the American Experiment announced today the creation of a new Policy Fellow position in the area of public safety and criminal justice that will be filled by experienced…
Now that 2021 has (finally) rolled off the board, we can begin to total up the damage. St. Paul recorded 38 homicides, a new record for the city in a…
I started covering public safety for American Experiment a couple of years ago, writing about a surge of violent muggings in downtown Minneapolis. Things have got worse since then. Minneapolis…
All of a sudden the fervor for purging schools of police officers appears to be falling flat. The ‘no cops in the corridors’ campaign gained momentum in the aftermath of…
The only decisions being made right now in Minnesota are political decisions. It was a political decision to charge Kim Potter with a crime for making a mistake while carrying…
A Ramsey County District Court judge has suspended implementation of St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter’s all-or-nothing vaccine mandate on the city’s police and firefighters set to take effect in January.…
It’s safe to say that it’s always something at the Driver and Vehicle Services. And you can be sure whatever that something is, it will usually inconvenience thousands or more…
The Sentencing Guidelines Commission met last week to consider eliminating what’s called custody status points from the sentencing grid for felons. The Commission heard hours of testimony after American Experiment…
There have been 610 carjackings reported in Minneapolis so far in 2021 with nary a response. But it took only a handful of such crimes committed in nearby suburbs for…
As the Sentencing Guidelines Commission meets today to consider a proposal to weaken prison terms for felons, they will have over 3,400 emails to read from Minnesotans who participated in…
In the wake of George Floyd’s death in May 2020, Minneapolis became a center for the movement to ‘defund the police.’ Last week, Fox 9 reports: Minneapolis City Council mostly…
Gov. Tim Walz’s voice on the Sentencing Guidelines Commission is so out of the mainstream that she’s been kicked out of some of Minnesota’s most liberal organizations. Tonya Honsey describes…
If you needed another reason to dislike the third draft of social studies standards currently under review, take a look at how they treat police officers and the history of…
The epidemic of carjackings in Minneapolis has now spilled over into the adjacent suburbs. As Minneapolis is approaching 500 carjackings for the calendar year, car thieves are looking for new…
The momentum keeps building among public employee unions opposed to St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter’s coerced vaccination of nearly 4,000 city employees. Three more St. Paul public employee unions have…
The verdict, as they say, is still out on whether Minnesota has turned the corner on its current crime epidemic. It was announced today that Medaria Arradondo, Minneapolis police chief…
The Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission is a sleepy little agency with a very important job — they determine the presumptive sentences for felony offenses committed in Minnesota. From their website:…
Good luck if you experience a heart attack, house fire or get robbed at gunpoint in St. Paul soon. Unless something changes before the end of this month, it’s one…
Since Minnesota seems to adopt only the worst ideas from California, it pays to monitor events on the left coast. After the infamous sacking of the local Louis Vuitton store,…
It seems that Minnesota only imports the worst ideas from California. On Black Friday, a group of 20-30 people stole merchandise from a Best Buy store in south suburban Burnsville,…