On New Year’s Eve, 2024, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara put out an end-of-the-year message to all MPD officers thanking them for their hard work and dedication. The Chief’s message…
In May the City of Minneapolis announced its “Warehouse District Live” plan to bring foot traffic back to downtown Minneapolis on weekend nights — June through October. The plan blocks off…
This is the third in a series of four reports intended to document violent weekend activity in Minneapolis — coinciding with efforts by city leaders to draw more people back…
Despite efforts by some city leaders, residents, and media to downplay crime in Minneapolis, the amount of lawlessness and violence over the 2023 Memorial Day weekend tells a different story.…
As a Minneapolis kid who served 33 years in and around the city as a Sheriff’s deputy, I am not just troubled by the level of violence in my hometown,…
On Friday evening the son of a former metro area police chief was violently assaulted and hospitalized during a robbery of his cell phone in downtown Minneapolis. The chief posted…
‘The war on cops,’ which American Experiment has been talking about since 2016, is only one part of a much broader war on the safety of Minnesotans, which is being…
A little over a year ago, research suggested Minneapolis was in for a rise in violent crime. Sadly, that has come to pass. Figure 1 shows the percentage change in…
The soaring incidences of carjackings, shootings, and violent crime in Minneapolis has received much-deserved media attention both locally and nationally. But St. Paul also faces an outbreak of violence and…
Some suggest that Minneapolis police officers should live in the neighborhoods they police so that they will have to live with the results of their work. The city's council members…
Perhaps U.S. Representative Betty McCollum (D-MN) needs to get back to her home district in St. Paul more often. The longtime congresswoman recently took umbrage at the way St. Paul…