5th Precinct
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Crime
East Isles Blotter: Week of May 25 — Vehicle Break-Ins and Thefts Lead the Week
Minneapolis police logged six incidents in East Isles during the week of May 25, 2026: three involving vehicles, two thefts and one auto theft, with no violent crime reported.
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Lowry Hill Blotter: Week of May 25 — A Quieter Week, Led by Vehicle Thefts
Three crimes were reported in Lowry Hill the week of May 25, 2026 -- two involving vehicles and one robbery -- as Minneapolis closed in on 2,100 stolen vehicles for the year.
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East Isles Blotter: Week of May 18 — Vehicle Break-Ins and Thefts Lead the Week
Minneapolis Police open data recorded seven incidents in East Isles during the week of May 18, 2026, including five vehicle-related reports, one residential burglary and one assault.
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Lowry Hill Blotter: Week of May 18 — A Quieter Week, Led by Vehicle Thefts
Minneapolis Police open data recorded three incidents in Lowry Hill during the week of May 18, 2026, all of them thefts of vehicle parts.
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Lowry Hill Blotter: Week of May 11 — Vehicle Break-Ins and Thefts Lead the Week
Minneapolis police data records six reported incidents in Lowry Hill during the week of May 11, with vehicle break-ins and stolen cars accounting for four of them.
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East Isles Blotter: Week of May 11 — Vehicle Break-Ins and Thefts Lead the Week
Minneapolis police data records four reported incidents in East Isles during the week of May 11, three of them involving vehicles.
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Where to Find 5th Precinct Crime Data and Alerts
The City of Minneapolis posts every police report to a free online portal, and a few minutes of setup lets a resident watch what gets reported on their own block.
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East Isles Blotter: Week of May 4 — Thefts Top the Weekly Tally
Minneapolis police data records six reported incidents in East Isles during the week of May 4, four of them thefts, with the 2600 block of Hennepin Avenue accounting for half the total.
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Lowry Hill Blotter: Week of May 4 — A Quiet Week on the Blotter
Minneapolis police data records two reported incidents in Lowry Hill during the week of May 4: a burglary and an aggravated assault.
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Council Names a Block 'Jamal Mitchell Way' for the Fallen Fifth Precinct Officer
Minneapolis dedicated a one-block stretch of Blaisdell Avenue as Officer Jamal Mitchell Way on May 30, 2026, the second anniversary of the Fifth Precinct officer's killing, at the same intersection where he died.
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East Isles Blotter: Week of April 27 — A Quiet Week on the Blotter
Minneapolis police logged three crime reports in East Isles during the first week of June 2026: a bike theft, a stripped car and an assault near Lake of the Isles.
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Lowry Hill Blotter: Week of April 27 — A Mix of Reports, Including Assaults
Minneapolis police open data logged six incidents in Lowry Hill during the week of April 27, 2026, including two assault reports and two auto thefts.
City
Uptown Safety Push Continues as a Veteran Inspector Retires
Fifth Precinct Inspector James Novak retired May 1, 2026, after 34 years with the Minneapolis Police Department, as Ward 7's Uptown safety effort moved toward the November launch of an eight-member ambassadors program.
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Lowry Hill Blotter: Week of April 20 — A Quieter Week, Led by Vehicle Thefts
Minneapolis Police data recorded three incidents in Lowry Hill during the week of May 22, 2026, all of them vehicle-related.
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East Isles Blotter: Week of April 20 — Thefts Top the Weekly Tally
East Isles logged just two crime reports the week of April 20, 2026 -- a shoplifting and a stolen vehicle -- a quiet week against a year in which Minneapolis is on pace for its most vehicle thefts in years.
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A Resident's Guide to Filing a Useful Police Report
A tight time window, a block-level location, a list of what was taken and any serial numbers are what separate a useful property-crime report from a dead end.
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Lowry Hill Blotter: Week of April 13 — Vehicle Break-Ins and Thefts Lead the Week
Minneapolis Police logged five incidents in Lowry Hill during the week of April 13, 2026, and three of them were vehicle-related, including two on a single block of Girard Avenue South.
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East Isles Blotter: Week of April 13 — A Quiet Week on the Blotter
Minneapolis police logged two incidents in East Isles during the week of April 13, 2026: a vehicle-related report on Girard Avenue South and a theft on Lagoon Avenue.
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East Isles Blotter: Week of April 6 — A Quieter Week, Led by Vehicle Thefts
Minneapolis Police data recorded three incidents in East Isles during the week of June 1, 2026: an assault near Lake of the Isles, a theft and a vehicle report.
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Lowry Hill Blotter: Week of April 6 — Thefts Top the Weekly Tally
Minneapolis Police logged four incidents in Lowry Hill during the week of April 6, 2026: two stolen cars and two other thefts, scattered across the neighborhood rather than clustered on one block.
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Lowry Hill Blotter: Week of March 30 — A Quieter Week, Led by Vehicle Thefts
Auto theft and break-ins to parked cars drove the Lowry Hill crime log through late May and early June, with thefts on the 1800 block of Girard Avenue South recurring almost weekly.
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East Isles Blotter: Week of March 23 — Vehicle Break-Ins and Thefts Lead the Week
Five of the six crimes reported in East Isles the week of March 23, 2026, involved a vehicle, with Knox Avenue South appearing three times in a single week.
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Lowry Hill Blotter: Week of March 23 — A Quiet Week on the Blotter
Minneapolis Police open data recorded two incidents in Lowry Hill during the week of March 23, 2026: an auto theft and a domestic assault, both reported March 29.
City
City, County and Transit Police Stand Up a Coordinated Uptown Response
Minneapolis stood up a multi-agency Uptown safety effort this spring, pairing a Fifth Precinct patrol unit that issued 120 trespassing citations and made 60 arrests since March 1 with a centralized police post in the Rainbow Building, county opioid-response outreach and a planned expansion of the city's safety-ambassador program.
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Lowry Hill Blotter: Week of March 16 — Thefts Top the Weekly Tally
Minneapolis Police data recorded three incidents in Lowry Hill during the week of June 1, 2026: two vehicle-related reports and an assault.
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East Isles Blotter: Week of March 16 — Thefts Top the Weekly Tally
Minneapolis Police open data recorded four incidents in East Isles during the week of March 16, 2026, three of them thefts.
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Lowry Hill Blotter: Week of March 9 — A Quiet Week on the Blotter
Minneapolis Police open data shows one incident reported in Lowry Hill during the week of March 9, 2026.
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East Isles Blotter: Week of March 9 — A Mix of Reports, Including Assaults
Minneapolis Police open data shows seven incidents reported in East Isles during the week of March 9, 2026, including a homicide on Hennepin Avenue.
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How the 5th Precinct's MSTAT Briefings Shape Patrols
The Minneapolis Police Department tracks where crime clusters through its MStat crime-data system, the modern version of a weekly accountability review the 5th Precinct uses to decide where to concentrate patrols.
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Uptown Safety Meeting Draws Crowd Near Lake and Hennepin
More than 100 residents and business owners packed a future restaurant space near Lake Street and Hennepin Avenue for a meeting on Uptown safety and livability, organized by the Uptown Association and the newly formed group Uptown United.
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5th Precinct Briefing: Property Crime Down, but Vehicle Break-Ins Persist
Theft from parked cars remained the most common crime reported across Lowry Hill, the Wedge and East Isles this spring, even as officers told residents that broader property-crime numbers have eased.
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Winter and Holidays Bring a Predictable Bump in Package Theft
Property crime around the lakes runs heavily to vehicle break-ins, so the case for securing deliveries is strongest before the holiday and deep-winter weeks when parcels pile up.
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Window Smashed on a Car Parked on Lake of the Isles Parkway
A center console was rifled on the 2500 block of West Lake of the Isles Parkway, but little was taken.
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Package Taken From an Apartment Lobby on Colfax in the Wedge
A delivery left in a shared entry on the 2000 block of Colfax Avenue South vanished within the hour.
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Vehicle Windows Smashed Overnight on Fremont Avenue in Lowry Hill
At least one parked car on the 1700 block of Fremont Avenue South had its windows broken overnight.
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