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Violent crime statistics present a particularly concerning aspect of the city's crime landscape. [6] Minneapolis's violent crime rate of 1,155 crimes per 100,000 residents is more than three times higher than the state average and nearly twice the national average. [7] From 2008 to 2023, there were a total of 73,702 violent crime reported.
Officials said violent crime levels in Minneapolis have begun to come down, and they believe this strategy — which involves collaboration between police, attorneys and federal agencies including ...
In Minneapolis, O’Hara said there has been a drop in violent crime in some areas but not others. Efforts to curtail violent crime have been hampered by personnel shortages and the proliferation ...
Minneapolis has more than twenty gangs with over 1,000 gang members. Police say gangs account for at least half of the violent crime in Minneapolis. [68] [69] Tensions between gangs and the Minneapolis Police Department were high following the acquittal of officers in the Rodney King beating trial in Los Angeles. [70]
Fourteen alleged Minneapolis gang members — including two senior leaders of a prominent group — face new federal gun and drug charges as part of the government's latest push to bring down ...
The Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area experienced a prolonged period of protests and unrest in 2020 and 2021 over issues of police brutality and racial injustice that began with the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on May 25, 2020.
Minneapolis City Council Member Jason Chavez pushed back on Frey tying the violence to fentanyl, local media outlet KARE 11 reported, accusing the mayor of pushing blame onto the city council.
By early June 2020, violence in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area had resulted in at least two deaths, [36] 604 arrests, and more than $500 million [7] in damage to approximately 1,500 properties, the second-most destructive period of local unrest in U.S. history, after the 1992 Los Angeles riots.