Quote (RedFromWinter @ Jun 23 2020 04:58am)
North Minneapolis is known for having a high violent crime rate, even mid day. This isn't 'new', except that it's happening in other parts of the city. Even last year, a mob of 20 was making headlines doing day gang beat and rob on random victims.
In contrast East St. Paul was a lot of petty crime, drugs, domestic shit, traffic violations. I found this out when house hunting cities 5 years back, looking over the zillow/trulia crime maps. North Minneapolis crime map and listing was like a third world shit show.
Oh for sure. The example I quoted is definitely something that could have come up whenever. And I do remember the mass beat & robs, mostly targeting individuals and stealing phones.
I never lived there, but know people who have. There definitely have always been crimes there but it does seem like a pretty significant spike is going on. You guys would know more about that than me.
There's basically been a pretty consistent streak of violent crimes occurring right now - stabbings, carjackings, shootings, etc.
I have zero interest in going anywhere around there right now. Hard pass.
This post was edited by GLYC123 on Jun 23 2020 05:32am