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Crime rates in Minneapolis fell in parts of 2023-2024 despite lower officer counts.
The reporting provided does not document any instance of Police Department officers shooting someone in 2025; the high-profile fatal shootings described in these sources occurred in early 2026 and inv...
Minneapolis saw a sharp, sustained exodus of officers beginning in 2020 that translated into rising vacancy rates and a dramatically smaller sworn force through 2023; quantified measures in city and m...
pursued a mix of financial incentives, contract raises, targeted recruitment, and policy studies after 2021 to blunt a steep post-2020 staffing decline; the city negotiated retention bonuses in late 2...
’ murders fell in 2025 — city officials report 64 homicides last year, down from 77 in 2024 — but available reporting and public dashboards in the provided sources do not supply a definitive, current ...
Between 2015 and 2025, available reporting suggests violent crime in rose citywide through the early 2020s and showed signs of easing in early 2025, while long-standing neighborhoods with high populat...