Way back on December 4, I wrote about the developing crime spree emerging in Minneapolis. Local media are finally catching up. The city’s official Crime Dashboard (updated through Christmas Day)…
In the four weeks through December 4, Minneapolis recorded 11 homicides, with the adjacent suburb of Edina recording two more. In the midst of all this violence, the individual stories…
Despite all the talk about falling crime rates in the state’s largest city, we are ending the year on a bang. The latest incident to grab headlines was a shootout…
Bail was set at $1 million on the single charge of 2nd-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of Christian Hans Lundegaard on Thanksgiving Eve. His next court appearance on the…
WCCO reports that the 32-year-old Garcia has been charged with a single count, 2nd-degree (felony) murder in the Thanksgiving-eve stabbing death of 62-year-old Christian Hans Lundegaard. Garcia remains in custody…
But you already knew that. Although he has not yet been charged in the Thanksgiving-eve fatal stabbing at an Edina bus stop, KSTP-5 has named the 32-year-old suspect in the…
The number stands at 7,094, according to the official City of Minneapolis crime dashboard. The city blew by the annual record back in September. True, the pace has slowed in…
For several years now, the City of Minneapolis has more and more taken a “public health approach” to fighting crime, relying less on police and law enforcement and more on…
We’ve previously discussed the rap sheet of the lone person charged with the gang-rape of an 11-year-old girl in Bemidji. In this post, we dig into the criminal histories of…
The incident discovered last month has received national attention. An 11-year-old rape victim escaped from a house in Bemidji where she says that she and two other teen girls were…
It was a team effort. As reported through yesterday (Sept. 29), the official Minneapolis Crime Dashboard indicates that, year-to-date, there have been 6,211 cars stolen in the City of Lakes.…
The city’s annual stolen car record is set to fall by the end of this weekend as many cars are resurfacing overseas. According to the city’s Crime Dashboard (updated yesterday,…
Last year saw the City of Lakes suffer through a record 6,138 auto thefts, according to city statistics. The official Minneapolis Crime Dashboard indicates that the city is only about…
Violent crime was slightly down in 2022, from the sky-high levels of 2021. The state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) issued its annual Uniform Crime Report today. The good news…
On average, an automobile is stolen every hour, 24 hours a day, seven days a week in the state’s largest city. According to the Minneapolis crime dashboard, 4,125 cars have…
Nobody seems to know. But no worries, much more money will be spent on the effort. In Minnesota, the City of Minneapolis is at the forefront of the use of…