The number of complaints filed against the St. Cloud Police Department more than doubled last year. Yet the overwhelming majority of the 25 complaints involving alleged officer misconduct — all…
Last week, my colleague Bill Walsh noted the resolute refusal of Governor Tim Walz to address the explosion of violent crime in Minneapolis, the biggest city in his state. In…
Increasing crime rates and a growing sense of lawlessness are the biggest challenges facing our state, but Gov. Tim Walz is doing everything in his power to ignore, deflect and…
There goes another one. The organizers of the Minneapolis Greek Festival scheduled for September 9-11 in Uptown Minneapolis have cancelled the popular celebration due to the continuing violent crime and…
As violent crime has soared in Minneapolis in 2020 and still further in 2021, a point we have made persistently is that the victims are disproportionately from the city’s black…
Minnesotans trust the police, avoid Minneapolis, and increasingly blame Gov. Tim Walz for rising crime.
State and Twin Cities leaders dither while vulnerable residents live in fear and increasing danger.
You can almost understand their outrage. After all, Gov. Tim Walz, the Minnesota State Patrol and Minneapolis police have coddled leftist mobs who’ve made a habit of taking their protest…
Dictionary.com offers several definitions of the word ‘frequency,’ one of which is: Also frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence Bear this definition in mind when you consider what…
Police are in the business of coming to the aid of citizens under fire. But lately Sartell residents have been coming to the assistance of their local police department under…
Minneapolis needs more cops to help stem the explosion of violent crime in the city. But that will only do so much. There is very little point apprehending violent criminals…
Violent crime is exploding in Minneapolis this year. Data from the City of Minneapolis shows that there were 47 homicides in the city between January 1 and July 15 this…
The head of the Minneapolis Police Federation confirms what many residents already know and fear. There aren’t enough police on the job citywide with the shortage in staffing affecting the…
It didn’t take long for residents in the besieged Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis to react to word that the latest threat to the area was finally being cleared out by…
There was no more vocal proponent for speeding up the public release of police body cam footage of interactions with police than St. Paul DFL Rep. John Thompson. The legislature’s…
On July 1, 2021, the Hennepin County District Court issued a Writ of Mandamus that orders the Minneapolis City Council and Mayor Jacob Frey to “immediately take any and all…
According to city data, there have been 41 homicides in Minneapolis so far in 2021. That is a 46 percent increase on the number for the same period in 2020.…
University of Minnesota President Joan Gabel has taken the institution’s tagline “Driven to Discover” to heart in a whole new way. A year after precipitously reducing ties with the Minneapolis…
Crime is surging in Minneapolis; that is not new. As a new article by the Star Tribune reveals, According to the most recent police statistics, the number of people shot…
A record number of Minnesotans applied for and received a permit to carry a concealed weapon last year — 96,554. An unprecedented number of residents — more than 358,000 —…
Majority now question Walz’s leadership, believe the state is on the wrong track and believe crime has gotten worse over the past year According to the latest Thinking Minnesota poll,…
Violent crime is exploding in Minneapolis. Figure 1 shows the number of homicides in Minneapolis for the period from January 1 to June 8 in the current year and each…
A six year old girl named Aniya died today after being shot in the head in Minneapolis on Monday evening. WCCO reports: She was riding in her family’s car as…
Maybe St. Paul restaurant owner Brian Ingram has been burglarized so many times he figures he doesn't have much more to lose by reconsidering a run for city hall.