Life is certainly harder with a criminal record. As we’ve explained on the blog before, job hunting and applying for college with a criminal past can make getting hired or accepted into school difficult, as well as applying to rent properties. This is due to the fact that police checks are now available for businesses […]
Minnesota Increasing Hate Crime Penalties
Minnesota lawmakers are moving forward with a bill that would increase penalties for individuals found guilty of a hate crime. The Senate Judiciary Committee passed a measure on Friday that would increase the maximum penalty for assaults by 25 percent if a judge or jury deems the attack was motivated by bias, like a person’s […]
March Madness Aggravated Assault Bracket
March Madness is here again, which means it’s once again time for our annual March Madness crime bracket. Last year we looked at data about violent crime on college campuses. This year, and since information about a vast majority of universities is scarce, we’ve decided to look at the same data as last year, but […]
Ramsey County Changing 911 Policy to Protect Those With Mental Health Issues
Ramsey County is launching a pilot program aimed at helping those with mental health issues get the support they need when a call to 911 is made. Under the old policy, if a person called 911 with a non-emergency to tell the dispatcher that a friend or family member was acting weirdly or had stopped […]
The Oscars: Crime Edition
Did you stay up last to watch the entire Oscars last night? It was a pretty entertaining show, and it was nice to see Leonardo DiCaprio finally get his Oscar. The show got us thinking that we should hand out some awards of our own. So we dove into the blog vault to come up […]
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