Crime, Law and Justice

Minneapolis to spend $4.8 million on temporary police station
The city of Minneapolis plans to rent an office building for at least three years to serve as a temporary headquarters for police displaced from the 3rd Precinct. 
Plaintiffs sue to keep Minneapolis cops on the job
A group of north Minneapolis residents is suing the city to compel it to maintain the legal minimum of police officers on the force. Group members say the number of cops has already dropped below that level.
How to change how we teach history
A historian and an education policy scholar walk us through the problems with how we teach history in this country and how to improve curriculum.
Two friends. One stranger. And a chance encounter on a sailboat.
People across the country know how George Floyd died, but there has been less attention on who he was before his death. Two people, Floyd’s housemate and a man who was a stranger to Floyd, joined the program to talk about their time sailing on Bde Maka Ska. Then, we'll learn how a Fortune 500 company and a vocational training center are teaming up to support racial equity in Minnesota.
A boy with developmental disabilities who walked away from his Athens Township home Tuesday night has been located and is safe, the sheriff’s office said Wednesday.
Fired MPD officers called trash tree a ‘prank’
One of the two Minneapolis police officers who lost their jobs after decorating a 4th Precinct Christmas tree with racist items told an independent arbitrator they were playing a joke on a colleague whom they considered a “neat freak.”
Minnesota joins multistate lawsuit over postal changes
Minnesota is joining a coalition of 14 states in suing to block service changes at the U.S. Postal Service, even as the postmaster general reversed himself and said he'd halt some of the changes following a national outcry.
In Grand Forks, giving dignity to a man denied justice
A Black man who was lynched in Grand Forks, N.D., more than a century ago will be memorialized this month, decades after the idea was first raised.
Poll: Most Mpls. voters see Floyd killing as part of racist policing pattern
More than 8 in 10 Minneapolis voters say the killing of George Floyd by police was not an isolated incident, but rather a sign of larger problems in how the city’s Police Department treats Black people, according to a new MPR News/Star Tribune/KARE 11 poll.