This the Second Precinct Advisory Council Monthly meeting on Feb. 9th, 2026. Again we have had technical issues with Zoom, and the MPD Forensics team could not join the meeting. I’ll be asking them to present at a future meeting.
Fortunately, 2nd Precinct Lt. Hudok is here to talk to us about the State of the Precinct report, and about navigating the city streets if we see a confrontation or other unusual event.
STATE OF THE PRECINCT
NIBRS Crime Metrics for MPD 2nd Precinct. Reporting 28-days ending on Feb. 9 only
| Crime 2026 2025 3 yr. Ave. |
| Assault 98 89 73 |
| Incl. Domestic 9 7 9 |
| B&E 151 18 25 |
| Destruction/Property Vandalism 92 58 65 |
| Homicide, non negligent 0 0 |
| Homicide, negligent 0 0 |
| Larceny 152 151 149 |
| MV Theft 129 44 68 |
| Robbery 4 10 10 |
| Incl. Car Jacking 2 3 2 |
| Sex Offenses 11 7 7 |
| Stolen Property 0 1 1 |
| Weapons Law Violation 2 7 4 |
| Shots Fired 13 17 16 |
| Gun Wound Vics. 0 17 1 I’ve BOLDED the categories that seem out of line: Break and Entry, Destruction/Property Vandalism, Damage, Motor Vehicle Theft. Lt. Hudok: We’re finding a fair amount of damaged motor vehicles. These may be attempted auto thefts: somebody breaks the handle off a vehicle but doesn’t quite complete the theft. That gets written up as damage to property or damage to auto, or attempted auto theft. That’s part of the rise in numbers. I haven’t really seen much else in the way of other damage to property incidents. Not a theme or anything like that. I think the most common is attempted auto theft that doesn’t quite get accomplished, but there’s still some damage to the vehicle. Also, within the last few days, we had a rash of auto thefts throughout the day. There was no real pattern to the locations, but they were happening throughout the entire precinct. Also, the same kind of suspects were dumping stolen vehicles from other parts of the city in the 2nd Precinct and taking vehicles. Quast: Could you backtrack on that one, please, and explain a little bit more? Hudok: Sure. Mostly Kias, Hyundais, things like that that were being taken. They were arriving in a vehicle they’d already stolen, dumping that, then grabbing another one, leaving the first other stolen vehicle behind. We had a lot of that on Saturday from the early part of the day through the early part of the evening. Quast: You mean they made it home for curfew? Hudok: They must have. But that was an unusual uptick on that one particular day. It still remains one of the higher offenses [in the 2nd Precinct]. It’s good that our higher incident offenses aren’t violent crimes. But it’s unfortunate that it’s still definitely a problem with the auto thefts, attempted auto thefts, car break-ins, things like that. Quast: Is this still the Kia boys? Hudok: I’m not 100% certain. I wouldn’t doubt it, but I don’t know if it’s a rash of juveniles that are engaging in it or if it’s some of the same juveniles. The problem seems to move around the city. Quast: I’d like to know how to move around town safely. I have friends in South Minneapolis, Little Earth. We need to plan an activity over there with a Pre-K school and need to meet “somewhere”. |
So, what do I do if I’m driving over and see a lot of activity going on? I don’t want to drive into it or draw attention to myself.
Hudok: I’m assuming you’re talking about the federal activity that’s going on in the city.
Quast: Is that what we call it now? Okay.
Hudok: Well, it’s not us doing it; it’s the Federal Government. When they have these operations, they tend to not stay long. They do what they do, then they leave, and go to another location. They’re not really fixed in one spot for terribly long, at least as far as I’ve noticed looking at the watch commander’s logs and things like that. So, odds are, they’re going to do what they do, and then they’re going to move on to some other location, or whatever they do afterwards. It depends on if they take somebody into custody or not. If they don’t, they’ll probably move on to another location to conduct some activity.
It seems like they go in, do something, and then they’re pretty much gone within a few minutes — you know, 10, 20, 30, 40 minutes, whatever, an hour. So, wait them out.
If you see something that’s going on and you’re not really sure what it is, and you don’t want get wrapped up in that. You can just wait a safe distance away, and within a few minutes, it is probably going to be moving on to some other location.
Certainly people have the right to observe and express their opinions, but if you would rather just simply not be any part of it, then within a matter of a few minutes, it’ll probably move on to a different location, and the area would open up.
Question: I’m part of Monicar, the group that is trained to do advocacy. We stand in different groups and then we text each other. We do see ICE, but rumor has it, is now ICE is hiding out, posing as electricians and whatever inside of vehicles, and a lot of people just publicly are afraid to be out someplace like at their gym or bringing their kids someplace, where ICE is in a car pretending that they’re electricians or construction workers. Have you heard about this sort of activity?
Hudok: I haven’t seen that from any source within the Department. I’ve seen online that people believe that’s going on. I haven’t seen anything official on it.
Question: Were you aware that ICE was sitting in your [Precinct] parking lot last Saturday?
Hudok: They popped up at a few different parking lots or park buildings, different parks and other city-owned spaces. Again, they don’t seem to stay there terribly long.
They come in and then when people notice them, they go on to some other location. I know there have been reports of them using a lot of MPRB park space lately.
As I mentioned before, if you’re going somewhere and you see a bunch of activity, and you’re not sure what it is, generally, like I said, it’s not very long lasting. If it’s not something you want to involve yourself in, you can just wait it out. They move on to another location quickly. If it is something you want to observe and voice your opinion on that, that’s well within your prerogative. If you want to avoid it, it shouldn’t last terribly long based on what I’ve been seeing in our watch commander logs documentations.
Quast: Thanks again to those of you who stayed for this part of the meeting. We have got to get a Zoom maven in here, which will be my job for the coming weeks
Stay safe, everyone,
Emilie Quast, Member
MPD Second Precinct Advisory Council (2-PAC)
1911 Central Ave NE
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