Tried and true responses to crime
It’s a sadly ironic cycle when tried and true crime suppression efforts are implemented with success only to be ignored, or worse yet rejected over time, leading to the next…
It’s a sadly ironic cycle when tried and true crime suppression efforts are implemented with success only to be ignored, or worse yet rejected over time, leading to the next…
Digging into a recent alleged homicide in Minneapolis uncovers a remarkable paper trail. A headline from KSTP-TV 5 caught my eye last week: 2 men under ATF investigation charged in…
Of course, the headline in the UK Daily Mail is more spicy than any that local media could offer up. The headline from the New York Post is slightly less…
Both state and federal trials involving the son of the former state representative have been pushed back from next month. The junior Thompson stands accused of killing five young women…
Several media outlets and many politicians would have us believe that Minneapolis is becoming safer at the same time its police force is shrinking. The not-so-subtle takeaway being that fewer police…
Top Met Council and Metro Transit brass spent parts of four days last week taking the pulse of the nation's most dangerous light rail system by riding and speaking with…
The Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission released its annual Report to the Legislature last week. The 2024 report is 123 pages and reports on 2022 trends in state sentencing and 2023 changes…
Case law across the country since the 1970s has discouraged and, in many cases, prohibited cities from finding effective ways to address vagrancy, loitering, and unsheltered homelessness. In general case…
Minneapolis, the epicenter of chaos following the death of George Floyd and the self-imposed economic damage from COVID-19, has significant problems to address in 2024. Many would say that unless…
The man accused of a fatal, unprovoked Thanksgiving-eve stabbing at an Edina bus stop was back in court on Monday. The always-alert Lou Raguse of KARE-11 reports. Adam Garcia remains…
James William Turner, Jr. was charged in state court with the non-fatal shooting of a then 11-year-old girl in the first few minutes of New Years Day. Turner was allegedly…
A year and a half after unveiling a highly promoted 40-point safety and security plan, Met Council Chairman Charlie Zelle finally plans to get a first-hand look at the nation’s…
These days public libraries in urban areas often operate as drop-in centers for the homeless, vagrants and drug users, as much as anything else. To protect the public and employees,…
The man accused of killing five young women in a horror Minneapolis car crash back in June of last year is now being held in federal custody. Derrick John Thompson,…
KSTP-TV has observed an early-winter epidemic of stray bullets plaguing the state’s two largest cities. KSTP reports, Police in the Twin Cities are looking into multiple recent incidents that left…
In December 2023, sociology professors Christopher Ferguson and Sven Smith of Stetson University published a paper entitled “Race, class, and criminal adjudication: Is the US criminal justice system as biased…