Crime and punishment
The Sky Is Not Falling: Minneapolis 2010 Homicide Tally Settling at Decade-Long Average
Despite rash of homicides in January, number of murders in Minneapolis projected by end of 2010 right at 10-year average
Read MorePawlenty Proposal to Get Tough on Sex Offenders Likely to Have Huge Public Support
Previous polling suggests Minnesota residents back various tougher penalties on sex offenders by greater than 3:1 margins
Read MoreHow Predictive is the Recent Spate of Minneapolis Homicides?
Episodic events at the beginning of the year should not be cast as signs that the City is in the midst of a violent crime frenzy
Read MoreMinnesota Has 2nd Largest Increase in Prison Population in the Nation This Decade
Only West Virginia saw its state and federal prison population increase at a higher rate from 2000-2008
Read MoreShould RT Rybak Run His Gubernatorial Campaign as a Tough-on-Crime Democrat?
Minneapolis October ’09 Crime Rate Falls 10 Percent from a Year Ago Despite 27 Percent Rise in Unemployment
Read MoreRed States Have Higher Crime Rates Than Blue States
Red states across the nation have both higher violent and property crime rates than blue states, across several measures of partisanship
Read MoreMinnesota Crime Rate Falls to Lowest Level Since the Moon Landing
Uniform Crime Reports data released this week finds the Gopher State’s overall crime rate falling to its lowest level since 1969
Read MoreMinneapolis Index Crime Rate Falls 18 Percent from April 2008
The Minneapolis Police Department’s official Uniform Crime Report data for April 2009 finds crime in Minnesota’s largest city down 18 percent from one year ago. The 18 percent 12-month drop is the largest in the city dating back more than…
Read MoreShould Minnesota’s Corrections Budget Be Increased?
The passage of public safety legislation this week in the Senate (SF 802) and House (HF 1162) included a reduction of approximately $100 million of the base budgets across more than a dozen departments – the largest being a $34.2…
Read MoreJesse Ventura Lobbies for Ambassador Post to Cuba
Former Governor Jesse Ventura appeared on Larry King Live Monday evening to promote the paperback release of his latest book, Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me, and offered his trademark rapid-fire quips on a range of subjects, from Barack Obama’s…
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