Minnesota Criminals

According to the latest surveys, the number 1 drug problem for many counties across the country is methamphetamine users. This synthetic drug that is easily manufactured has quickly spread from the West Coast and has moved into Minnesota. Law enforcement officials throughout Minnesota blame methamphetamine use as one of the causes behind the rise in urban and suburban crime, including homicides in several of the state’s metro counties.
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It’s been a disturbing week for crime statistics and events. First, the guy who kept his dead mother in the freezer and shot at his neighbors regularly gets sentenced to 7 years, then the stats for robbery in Minneapolis along with a bunch more stats come out and show that robberies are set to outpace every year since 1997 and continue a trend in increases since 2003. And to top it all off, the stats article quotes Third Precinct Inspector Scott Gerlicher saying that, “there is a roving group of young thugs in his precinct in south Minneapolis who strike as a victim is nearing home.” Great.
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Now there is a free tool that informs you of sex offenders in your area. MapSexOffenders.com is a user friendly site that combines Google’s map technology and the National sex offenders’ database. Currently this site has mapped sex offenders in 37 states with the goal of mapping all 50 states as soon as possible.
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