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Boy, 10, charged after driving stolen car near crowded Minneapolis playground (www.cbsnews.com)

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Minneapolis police arrested a 10-year-old boy for allegedly driving a stolen vehicle near a school playground last month — and it's not the boy's first brush with the law, police said.

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[–] TheAuthor_13@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sure, he was arrested, but the playground cred he just earned is going to carry him long beyond any incarceration.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

The coolest kid in school.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that this isn't the nicest neighborhood in the world, and there are probably other kids on the playground getting up to their own shennanigans.

kagis for North Minneapolis

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/25/us/minneapolis-crime-defund-invs/index.html

A feeling of lawlessness, a sense of neglect

Residents of the north side describe a landscape that can feel lawless. Indeed, about 60% of police calls for shots fired this year have come from the area, even though it makes up just 15% of the population, according to city data.

Paul Johnson, 56, said young men openly sell drugs during the day in public places, such as a gas station on Broadway Avenue that has been dubbed the “murder station” due to all of the fatal shootings there. (It is near the one where Blair was killed.)

“You pull up to get gas – they try to sell you drugs,” he said. “And not just three or four, but it’s a bulk of people.”

The perception among many residents is that the police ignore the area.

“They just let it go on,” said Johnson’s friend, Brian Bogan, 42, who said he moved from north Minneapolis to relatively safer St. Paul due to his kids growing up in an area where they don’t know if “it’s fireworks or gunshots.”

https://www.fox9.com/news/are-crime-maps-holding-back-north-minneapolis

Red all over

CoreLogic’s map for North Minneapolis shows an enormous swath of red from Golden Valley Road to the south, spanning the length of seven neighborhoods: Near North, Willard-Hay, Jordan, Hawthorne, Folwell, McKinley, and Camden.

Nearly the entire northwest side of the city is saturated in crimson red.

CoreLogic says the red zone means the area has up to five times the national average for property and violent crime.

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/mpd-chief-hennepin-county-attorney-spar-over-referral-of-juvenile-crime-cases/

MPD chief, Hennepin County attorney spar over referral of juvenile crime cases

One day after a drive-by shooting injured four kids in north Minneapolis, the Hennepin County attorney and Minneapolis police chief are sparring over strategies to stop the cycle of juvenile crime.

Police said the four victims were inside a stolen Kia around 1 a.m. Sunday when automatic gunfire erupted from a vehicle following them on West Broadway Avenue.

Two boys and two girls between the ages of 11 and 14 were injured, and one girl who was shot in the head was brought to the hospital in critical condition. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said on Monday that all of the victims were expected to survive.

“I think, in a lot of ways, we are failing to deter this activity,” O’Hara said the night of the shooting. “Two of the five juveniles involved in this incident were arrested not even two weeks ago for being in a stolen car.”

Yeah.