Minnesota lawmakers want to make a push to ban the sale of novelty cell phone cases that are shaped like handguns. State Representatives Joe Atkins and Dan Schoen announced last week that they want to propose a bill that would ban the manufacturing, sale and possession of gun shaped cell phone cases in Minnesota. The […]
Minnesotans Have Positive View of Police
Despite national incidents that have drawn questions about police tactics, Minnesotans appear to have an overwhelmingly positive view of police officers, according to a new survey. The police association commissioned survey polled nearly 500 registered voters by phone to get a general sense of how local residents viewed policing procedures in Minnesota. After compiling the […]
Is Spitting a Crime in Minneapolis?
Spitting on a city street can result in a hefty fine, according to a Minneapolis ordinance. Under the city ordinance, it is illegal for any person to spit on a city sidewalk, bus or in a public area in Minneapolis. Here’s the full text of the ordinance: No person shall spit or expectorate or deposit […]
House and Senate Divided Over Police Body Cameras
The Minnesota Senate passed a bill on Thursday that would regulate the video evidence collected from police through the use of body cameras, but it appears the bill will face some opposition in the House. Similar to license plate reader legislation, it appears that both the Senate and the House are in favor of enacting some […]
Stop and Frisk Laws in Minnesota
It appears that Minnesotans continually had their 4th amendment rights infringed upon in 2014 through thousands of unjust “stop-and-frisk” maneuvers by police. Police are well within their rights to search a person so long as they have “a reasonable suspicion that the subject is committing a crime.” Now, we could sit here and write 5,000 […]
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