Minneapolis Police Department believes extra enforcement and a youth curfew helped limit downtown violence this past weekend.
A curfew task force was enacted from Friday afternoon through early Monday morning. On the weekends, children under the age of 12 in Hennepin County had to be home by 10 p.m., 12 to 14-year-olds by 11 p.m., and 15 to 17-year-olds by midnight.
It follows consecutive violent weekends at 5th Street and Hennepin Avenue, including a mass shooting that killed two men and injured two teenage girls on Sep. 22 and an incident in which a driver plowed into a group of people, killing a 16-year-old girl , a week earlier.
MPD says that there were “no significant violent incidents downtown from Friday afternoon through early Monday morning.”
The task force comprised MPD’s Juvenile Investigations Division, Metro Transit Police, the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, the Minnesota State Patrol, and 30 to 50 members from community groups including 21 Days of Peace, TOUCH Outreach, and A Mother’s Love.