Takeaways from Minneapolis’ new gun violence report

A report offered to Minneapolis officers this week gives a brand new have a look at gun violence tendencies within the metropolis. 

The Minneapolis Police Division shared the info with the Public Well being & Security Committee on Wednesday.   

This is among the report’s key findings: 

Violent crime tendencies 

Violent crime in Minneapolis this yr is up considerably in comparison with figures from 2019, a development which has been seen in a lot of the U.S. because the begin of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nevertheless, in comparison with the identical time final yr, the frequency of violent crime seems to be plateauing. 

There isn’t any change in homicides, for instance, with 56 homicides reported as of Aug. 8 each this yr and final. 

Carjackings have proven a rise (up 21% in comparison with the identical time final yr), however capturing associated calls and the variety of capturing victims are trending downward with a 9% and 11% lower in comparison with final yr, respectively. 

The emergence of fully-automatic gunfire 

Totally-automatic gunfire in was first detected within the metropolis in August of 2020 in a SpotSpotter activation in South Minneapolis. 

Since then, there’ve been 390 activations detecting fully-automatic gunfire with 4,138 rounds detected. 

Learn extra in regards to the rise of fully-automatic gunfire in Minneapolis right here. 

Disparities in capturing sufferer demographics 

Fewer capturing victims and fewer people arrested for firearm offenses in Minneapolis reside throughout the metropolis in comparison with 2019, though Minneapolis residents nonetheless account for greater than half of the people in each teams. 

Knowledge continues to point out main disparities is capturing sufferer demographics by race. 

To this point this yr, 83% of capturing victims in Minneapolis have been Black, whereas 9% are white. In cases the place an outline of a shooter is given, 89% of them have been described as Black.

In 2021, knowledge confirmed there was 1 Black capturing sufferer for each 150 Black residents in comparison with 1 white capturing sufferer for each 3,768 white residents. 

Round 2/3 of capturing victims in Minneapolis this yr have been beneath the age of 31. 

Gun violence hotspots 

MPD calls associated to gun violence and firearm crimes are concentrated inside sure hotspots. 

To this point this yr, gun-related police responses have been the densest within the Jordan Neighborhood throughout the Close to North neighborhood, the Broadway Avenue hall, Lowry Ave. and Knox Ave., twenty seventh Ave. and Bloomington Ave., Franklin Ave. and Chicago Ave., nineteenth Ave. and Nicollet Ave. and fifteenth Ave. and Nicollet Ave.

Firearms reported stolen on the rise  

Via Aug. 8 this yr, there’ve been 282 firearms reported stolen in Minneapolis — that is a rise of 36% in comparison with final yr and 75% in comparison with 2020. 

Almost half of these stolen this yr had been reported stolen from autos. 

Tracing weapons 

To this point this yr, 68% of weapons recovered by police had been bought in Minnesota. 

Straw purchases — a federal crime through which somebody purchases a firearm for an ineligible particular person — account for among the weapons throughout the metropolis, however not many. 

Gun tracing is a technique utilized by legislation enforcement to assemble knowledge on the place weapons had been initially bought.

Gun tracing knowledge collected over the previous two years confirmed practically 70% of firearms recovered in Minneapolis had been initially bought in Minnesota. Nevertheless, 45 states had been represented in whole.

There have been 624 weapons recovered this yr city-wide, a 3% rise on 2021. There have been 13 weapons recovered that had been utilized in against the law inside 30 days of buy and 30 weapons utilized in against the law inside 90 days.

Fentanyl as a gun violence indicator 

MPD evaluation discovered the neighborhoods with the best variety of shooting-related requires service this yr additionally had the best totals of fentanyl drugs recovered. 

Evaluation discovered a 100% constructive correlative relationship between the 2 components. 

Heroin, meth, cocaine and different substances had a considerably weaker correlation.