School is back in session, and that means students have flooded back to residence halls and campus apartments for another year. As you might have guessed, as the student population on campus increases, so does the area crime rate. According to the University of Minnesota Police Department, there was a noticeable uptick in certain crimes […]
MN Supreme Court – You Don’t Have To Take To Steal
What constitutes stealing in Minnesota? When it comes to shoplifting, you aren’t legally considered a shoplifter until you leave the store with the unpaid merchandise, so slipping something into your purse while you’re shopping isn’t considered stealing. However, the Minnesota Supreme Court recently ruled that the same laws don’t apply to motor vehicles. Yesterday, the […]
Trigger Happy Cop Mistakes Camera For A Gun, Shoots Reporter
There are hundreds of thousands of good cops in the US, but there are are also a number of officers who should never have been allowed to have authority over others. Cops keep making the news because of the poor decisions of a few members of the fraternity, and it only casts them in a […]
CDL Suspension in Minnesota
Commercial Driver’s License suspensions can be even more problematic than a normal driver’s license suspension because many CDL drivers have that license as part of their job, meaning a suspension could cost them their source of income. Also, since CDL drivers are usually driving heavy machinery or potentially dangerous freights, they are held to higher […]
Boating While Intoxicated – Understanding Physical Control
As we mentioned in a previous Whiteboard Talk, you can get a DWI even if you’re not actually driving a car. That’s because in Minnesota, you only need to be deemed in “physical control” of the vehicle in order to be given a DWI. As we explained in that blog, “physical control” is a somewhat […]
