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Thread (Discussion): Same few offenders, big crime headache
Message 168139
Posted by Navigatr1
on Nov 28, 2005 03:49 PM | Also by Navigatr1
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Same few offenders, big crime headache
A study finds that a substantial amount of crime downtown this summer was caused by a few low-level criminals.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5749432.html
Mike Kaszuba, Star Tribune
Last update: November 27, 2005 at 10:02 PM
Nobody may ever figure out what to do with Jesse Lee Cook, or any of the "Downtown 33" who made life unpleasant for sports fans, shoppers and others who came to downtown Minneapolis this past summer.
In a recently released report believed to be the first of its kind in Minnesota, city and county officials have concluded that a relatively small number of chronic, low-level offenders were responsible for a sizable chunk of crime -- most of it minor -- in downtown Minneapolis from mid-April to mid-June, when officials analyzed police data and cracked down on crime in a $736,000 effort to make the city center safer this summer.
Dubbed the "Downtown 33," the group of offenders was the focus of 20 percent of all police stops from mid-April to mid-June in the city's newly created "safe zone" that surrounds the downtown business district. One member of the Downtown 33 was stopped by police 29 times in that same time period this summer.
Ran across this news article as I was surfing the web, and thought it was interesting since it shows who the repeat criminals really are. These are the ones where justice is a constant revolving door for them.
--Navigatr1
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