The Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington, D.C.-based group, is conducting a comprehensive assessment of the Minneapolis Police Department’s (MPD) internal affairs procedures. It’ll evaluate the department’s process for investigating police misconduct and complaints;…
When police responded to a 911 call about a noisy South Minneapolis party in the wee morning hours Thursday, a few guests turned out to be fellow cops. Authorities are looking into…
Last Wednesday, The Star Tribune reported that an attorney has asked the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office to investigate Minneapolis Police Chief Timothy Dolan for a data practices violation. What the story failed to make clear,…
The Minneapolis Police Department takes a bow on cable reality TV this week. MPD homicide detectives Rick Zimmerman and Tammy Diedrich (pictured above) will be featured in A&E’s The First 48. The show first airs this Thursday,…
Minneapolis police officers can now be found patrolling the downtown area on three-wheeled electric gizmos called T3s, donated by maker T3 Motion. The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) recently introduced a fleet of six of the battery-powered zero-emission…
The Minneapolis Police Department is strengthening its downtown Mounted Patrol Unit to meet what police say is a growing demand for officers on horseback, according to Sgt. Angela Dodge, who supervises the unit. Last week, the MPD…
Jorge Emilio Esquivel-Munoz, 31, who is from Mexico but has lived in Minneapolis over the past four years, probably didn’t imagine that hanging out with a friend who was drunkenly fooling around with a toy BB gun…
Often, press conferences are held to give information about something that happened. But here’s some PR for something that didn’t happen, to counteract a sophisticated game of telephone among adults. On Wednesday, Minneapolis Police…
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