Minneapolis - St. Paul Metro

The relevant bits of each:

“The use of a trained narcotics-detection dog to sniff the exterior of a motor vehicle is not a ‘search’ requiring probable cause under either the Fourth Amendment or the Minnesota Constitution,” Justice Anne McKeig wrote in the court’s opinion.

The court rejected these concepts and said that strictly on evidence the jury correctly found Moore guilty because he was seated in the driver’s seat and had access to the key to the glove compartment.

An appeals court ruled that the language of Minnesota’s legal statutes for engrained offenders clearly shows that “previously committed” means a predatory crime was committed before the sentencing for the current crime, not before the current crime took place.

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Police chief Brian O’Hara says it will be the first time since 2020 that the department will see an increase in sworn officers.

Oh good, that means we've got the police violence problem fixed, right?

Minneapolis Police Department officers reported using physical force against suspects more than 1,000 times in 2022, one of the highest per-capita rates of police force in the nation, according to data released this week.

MPD officers reported using force at the same rate in 2022 as they did in 2020, the year George Floyd was murdered by MPD officers, led by Derek Chauvin.

Over the same time period, police use of force rose precipitously in neighboring St. Paul, roughly doubling from 2018 to 2022, according to the data. On a per-capita basis, St. Paul police are now more likely to use force against suspects than MPD officers.

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I liked this photo the most:

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Fortunately I've still got power, but a lot of friends don't. Makes up for the last big storm where I lost power for several days. Anyone else get hit hard?

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With the new ordinance, vacant properties owners would have two years to work with the city to rehab, sell or demolish sites, with a one-year extension available to those demonstrating progress. Afterward, the city will fine every code violation up to $2,000 a month.

In the past, a property owner had to pay a vacancy fee of $7,000 a year. Now, they can be charged up to $24,000.

Officials closed the main gate to the Minnesota State Fair for nearly an hour Saturday after a nearby protest stopped traffic and bus services.

According to a statement from fair officials, the gate at Snelling Avenue and Midway Parkway was closed at 2 p.m. due to what appeared to be a pro-Palestinian demonstration.

“Select buses that utilize the gate were paused and pedestrians were redirected to other gates,” the statement read. “Operations resumed following the demonstration at approximately 2:50 p.m.”

Video posted on X at showed a group of people standing in the intersection, with some of them holding Palestinian flags, the area locked in conflict between Hamas and Israel. Cease-fire talks in the war are ongoing, though there were reports Saturday of Israeli airstrikes killing dozens in Gaza.

Fair officials have celebrated record attendance so far this year, marking the event’s opening two days as the most well-attended in Minnesota State Fair history. The record for State Fair attendance was set in 2019, when more than 2.1 million people visited the Great Minnesota Get-Together.

~~good luck~~ get bent lol

The prevailing anecdote in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the unrest following George Floyd’s murder was that droves of people moved out of Minneapolis. But it wasn’t true.

According to new data compiled by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, some people did move, but not at a rate exceeding what had been typical before the pandemic.

The study had some limitations, but none that seem likely to affect the numbers very much:

The new data has limitations. People without credit scores or Social Security numbers weren’t included, reducing the representation of people younger than 25, those with low incomes and immigrants.