Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman, who was shot multiple times by an individual masquerading as a police officer, has proposed a bill that would make impersonating a police officer a felony-level offense. “I was almost killed. My wife was almost killed. My daughter had a gun placed in her face by an individual who looked […]
Minnesota AG Clarifies Police Procedures In Schools
Earlier this month, we penned a blog noting that many police departments were pulling their resource officer out of schools over concerns about new changes that restricted their ability to physically restrain disruptive or dangerous students. These police departments didn’t want to get sued for potentially violating what they believed was unclear language in the […]
Biometric Scanning Makes It Easier For Police To Access Your Cell Phone
We’ve talked about whether or not police can force you to unlock your cell phone during the course of an investigation on this blog in the past, but the subject of cell phone privacy is once again in the news after it has come to light how frequently police lean on hacking tools to access […]
Would Proposed Changes Have Intended Effect On Police Use Of Deadly Force?
In the wake of George Floyd’s death, legislators in Minnesota and across the United States have been working to try to find ways to curtail the use of deadly force by police to subdue suspects that could be managed in other ways. Locally, a St. Paul legislator believes that changing the wording of the current […]
Drug Seizures Nearly Double In Minnesota In 2019
Drug busts and seizures by Minnesota law enforcement nearly doubled in 2019, with many street drug seizures outpacing their 2018 results. According to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, seizures for methamphetamine, prescription pills, hashish or marijuana wax, heroin and cocaine all increased in 2019 compared to 2018 seizures. Marijuana seizures dropped by half in […]
