WHY THIS NETWORK EXISTS:
Local leadership will not provide sufficient information to the public about incidents happening in our neighborhoods. Mainstream local media also will not cover the bulk of incidents happening in our neighborhoods.
For 10 years, the Minneapolis Crime Watch network has been researching and reporting on crimes and cases you won’t hear about anywhere else, as well as providing essential information about failures in our criminal justice system that you need to know about to make informed decisions.
Over these 10 years, local law enforcement agencies as well as state and local governments have made it more and more difficult for the general public to obtain information about crime and criminals. This is unacceptable.
In addition to providing you with daily information, most of which you won’t get elsewhere, the Crime Watch network volunteers have spent a significant amount of time working behind the scenes to fight and oppose these actions on all levels of local government.
It’s our hope to keep you informed and engage you in opposing this continued effort to suppress essential public safety information. We will also continue to inform you about the failures and flaws in our criminal justice system that favors criminals over public safety, and ask that you help us fight for system and sentencing reform that holds criminals accountable in Minnesota.
The information you get here is provided as a public service, but it isn’t free to produce. There are real costs incurred for equipment (scanners, recording devices, data storage, software, etc), subscriptions (Broadcastify, publications) and data costs (some cities/agencies charge for public information requests and/or require travel to their agency to obtain it), etc. Not to mention the thousands of hours that have been spent by volunteers who research the info and cases and take the time to write up or summarize the information for publication.
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GENERAL INFO AND PAGE POLICY
WARNING: If you’re offended by reality, leave now. The Crime Watch network exists to hold the criminal justice system and media accountable. This Crime Watch network publishes news, information and commentary about crime, public safety and livability in the Twin Cities and surrounding areas.
NOTE: This site may utilize police scanner reports and publicly available information within the information posted on this page. Scanner reports and public information sources are not always accurate, use info with care.
NOTE: The comments and views expressed by followers of the Crime Watch Network do not represent the views of the network or admins. Do not assume that Crime Watch agrees with, condones or otherwise endorses any particular comment posted by others on any post. If you feel the comments of users are inappropriate, use the tools that Facebook provides to report the comment(s). Admins do not typically monitor and/or censor comments.
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The Crime Watch Network is for information about crime, public safety and livability news covering the Twin Cities and/or other surrounding areas, exurbs and, occasionally, greater Minnesota. You may also find “real-time” crime alerts posted on the pages. Follow us on Twitter @CrimeWatchMpls for breaking alerts, local road hazards and other info.
Residents are encouraged to post information about crime, public safety and livability issues or concerns in their neighborhood. If you wish to remain anonymous, you may use the Message feature on Facebook or Twitter to send a private message. The Crime Watch Network ALWAYS keeps sources confidential.
NOTE: This forum is intended as a place where neighbors can discuss and debate issues related to crime, public safety and livability. All comments and opinions are welcomed, but personal threats and harassment of the page admins will not be tolerated. Commenters who directly threaten others or who harass the admins of this page will have their comments removed and are subject to being banned from the page.
Information posted by the Crime Watch Network is not intended to supplant officially released information from any city, state, federal or governmental agency, entity or organization. The Crime Watch Network is not affiliated with any law enforcement or government agency and is not a 501c3 organization. Any donation you make is not deductible for tax reporting purposes.
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