Who Didn’t Get The Memo
By Mitch Berg
Minneapolis boosters have been chanting, non-stop, that “crime is down in MInneapolis”.
Seems everyone got the memo but the criminals:
And it wasn’t just homicides – a quick look at the Minneapolis crime dashboard (before they rolled the data over for the new year) showed:
- 3 more non-justified homicides (Minneapolis’ dashboard lumps justified police and civilian shootings together, and there was one more justifiable homicide last year than in 2023).
- Robberies up 10% in past year.
- Vandalism up 14% in year, 31% in three years.
- Assault has been steadily rising over past three years.
And the categories that *are* dropping are doing it very slowly.
