Public Safety

As budget cuts loom, low-risk undocumented immigrants freed

By Cynthia Boyd, MinnPost

A young Honduran immigrant — in Minnesota illegally but seeking asylum in the United States — couldn’t believe her good fortune Tuesday afternoon when she was released from jail in Sherburne County after 22 months detention.

MORE »

Annie Mae Jones wants everyone to 'leave the guns alone'

By Charles Hallman, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

Annie Mae Jones has seen Minneapolis change over the years both positively and negatively.

MORE »

License plate readers enable spying on innocent and law abiding Minnesotans

By Rich Neumeister, Open Secrets Minnesota

The discussion that the Legislature had and action they took in regards to a new technology nearly a quarter of a century ago is very similar to the one they are having now with License Plate Readers. (LPR)

MORE »
Open Secrets Minnesota

"One Billion Rising to End Violence" brought warmth, rallying near frozen Powderhorn Lake

By Mili Dutta and Ankita Deka, The Alley

The One Billion Rising to End Violence Against Women: Twin Cities was the catalyst bringing hundreds of people together near the shore of frozen Powderhorn Lake on February 14th, Valentine’s Day at Powderhorn Park, Mpls

MORE »

FREE SPEECH ZONE | Would a pistol in your hand change your behavior?

By Tom Dooley, Free Speech Zone

Although a gun is an inanimate object it still has the strange ability to influence human behavior. For example, a punk in the hood becomes a big man, a Rambo, with a pistol in his hand. Indian Princess Sita said many centuries ago,“The bearing of a weapon changes the nature of the bearer”, Similarly, the driving of a vehicle changes the nature of the driver ( sometimes to road rage.)

MORE »

E-DEMOCRACY | Will gun owners ambush Breakfast with Gary?

By Multiple authors, E-Democracy issues forums

From: N. Jeanne Burns Date: 16:15

MORE »

Far from gone: Graffiti in Hamline-Midway

By Erin Newton, TC Daily Planet

Tagged mailbox at Hamline and Thomas. (Photos by Erin Newton) 

Spraying graffiti on your own garage is not how most people would respond to tagging, but that’s just what Becky Johnson of Hamline-Midway did. 

On “the wall of illiteracy,” as she and her sons named it, they sprayed over previous vandals' graffiti with a message that she recalls as something like, “’Please don’t tag us unless you want to be shamed."

MORE »

Minneapolis Fire Ambassador Program bridges gap with teens from the East-African community

By Meritte Dahl, The Minnesota Daily

Sixteen-year-old Ubah Salad, right, and 20-year-old Mona Abdullahi practice chest compressions on a test dummy Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, at the Brian Coyle Center in Minneapolis. The Minneapolis Fire Department started the program to educate youth and improve relations between the department and the Cedar-Riverside community. (Photo by Emily Dunker)

Fire Capt. Mike Fust was preparing teens for an ice rescue.

MORE »

University of Minnesota Police Department working to boost diversity in hiring

By Jake Stark, The Minnesota Daily

Last month, the Minneapolis Police Department celebrated the graduation of its first new recruiting class in three years.

MORE »

Mental Health First Aid provides the needed skills for responding to mental health crises

By Vickie Evans-Nash, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

NAMI Minnesota’s criminal justice director, Anna McLafferty (left), and their older adults program director and development officer, Kay King, are certified Mental Health First Aid instructors. The koala bear is the class mascot, Algee, named after the first-aid acronym taught to students in the class. He is a koala because the class originated in Australia. (Photo courtesy of NAMI Minnesota)

First aid and CPR classes have been taught across the nation for years now, giving people with no medical training lifesaving skills in the event of a medical crisis. People suffering from mental health problems can pose a life-threatening crisis as well.

MORE »
Syndicate content