STATE OF THE PRECINCT
NIBRS 28 Crime Report.
| Crime 2025 2024 3 Yr Ave. | |||||
| Assault 83 77 80 | |||||
| Incl. Domestic Ag 8 8 8 | |||||
| B&E 25 26 27 | |||||
| Vandalism 122 87 78 | |||||
| Homicide non neg. 0 0 1 | |||||
| Homicide negligent 0 0 | |||||
| Larceny 184 171 192 | |||||
| Robbery 8 12 11 | |||||
| Incl.car jacking 1 3 3 | |||||
| Sex offenses 0 1 1 | |||||
| Weapons law violations. 2 1 5 | |||||
| Shots fired 29 22 27 | |||||
| Gun wound victims 4 2 2 | |||||
Inspector Torborg: Assaults are up for the last 28 days but they’re still down compared to last year — year to date they’re down about 50.
The destruction and vandalism is primarily kids going around breaking windows out of cars and stealing from the cars. That’s slowed down a little bit. We’ve made progress and identified some suspects, but it’s painstakingly slow. Over the past weekend, we did not have anything of the scale we’ve had in the past so we’re getting there.
If you look at a crime map of damage to autos year to date, there are hundreds of them in some neighborhoods. The boldness, of course, is frustrating; equally frustrating is that when we find them, they’re not held accountable.
QQ: You said you have some suspects. Have any arrests been made?
Torborg: City-wide incidents, about five different suspects. They get arrested and charged. Some just get charged by a complaint. Then it’s up to the Juvenile Court system to deal with them or not.
We’ve had some success with some of the damage to autos. We called crime scene people out to process the cars if we thought there was any chance of getting fingerprints. Sure enough, they were able to lift some prints off the vehicles that were damaged and identify some suspects!
That’s helpful because if we get a group of kids going out on the street damaging cars, how do we prove that the suspect we grabbed actually was taking part in damaging the cars? Well, when their fingerprints are found inside the car that’s pretty good.
Today we had a known auto thief crash a stolen car by a park. Thanks to good witnesses we were able to track him and take him into custody. It turns out he’s a prolific car thief, especially in the 5th Pct. Now he’s in, and he’s not a juvenile anymore so he got sent to the adult jail for at least 36 hours.
QQ: Are minors that end up in the juvenile court system detained?
Torborg: They get assigned to their parents. I heard a public information story at a meeting last week. In either the 3rd or the 5th Pct, two kids were arrested in stolen cars. The kids know the officers and talked to them. They said they love stealing cars. It’s what they did for fun and they would keep doing it. In this case they’re openly admitting they were going to continue stealing cars. Both were released an hour later.
The next day, the same kids were arrested, same story, went to JDC and released an hour later. The next night they got a stolen car again, but one wasn’t going with the program at JDC so he actually stayed for a while. The other was released an hour later.
I don’t think there’s been media coverage. Some people claim they don’t have enough secure beds to hold the violent juvenile offenders, and others claim that stealing cars isn’t a crime of violence. I (Torborg) would argue otherwise because the cars are used as a tool for other crimes of violence. [discussion of who pays for the repairs? Owner’s deductible, or insurance coverage or the parents of the minor?]
QQ: Porch pirates seem to be popping up again. Do they fall into the larceny category? My other question: MPD calls for service overall down. The concern some of us have is that people are not calling in when crime is too bad.
Torborg: You mean you’re wondering if in some parts of the city, they’ve been victims of damaged properties so often that they don’t even bother to report it anymore? [EQ: the directive is “Call It In, Every Time]
My property crimes lieutenant didn’t give me the numbers but we had a rash of catalytic converter thefts deaths again. The 2nd PCT didn’t get hit that hard at first, but now there’s been a bunch in the 2nd, so we need to keep watch. Battery operated power tools have gotten so good, somebody can climb under a car and cut off a catalytic converter in a matter of minutes. Once in a while we’ll get a good video of one and they just slide underneath. Sometimes they’ll park a car next to the car they’re working on and they’re in and out in a minute.
[Brief discussion of rebuilding 2-PAC Board.]
Emilie Quast, Member 2nd Precinct Advisory Council 1911 Central Ave NE Mpls, MN 55418 |
2nd Precinct Advisory Council 