Violent crimes increased by more than 50 percent in 2018 in Minneapolis’ Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, nicknamed “little Mogadishu,” which authorities attribute to Somali gang activity in the area.
Buried in a recent Star Tribune article was the fact that violent crimes jumped from 54 in 2010 to 84 in 2018, an increase in roughly 56 percent. Authorities attribute the violence to rivalries between Somali gangs, such as the Somali Mafia, the Somali Outlaws, the Hot Boyz, and Madhibaan with Attitude, Alpha News reports.
According to a 2014 Southside Pride article, the Outlaws and Madhibaan with Attitude have a rivalry that stretches back years, and likely resulted in the murder of two Somali men in April 2014. That article notes that the summer of 2013 was a particularly bloody season for gang warfare, which produced at least 4 killings.
A 2013 CBS article detailed the involvement of the Outlaws, the Mafia, and another gang called the Lady Outlaws in a sex-trafficking ring that recruited and prostituted young girls, some of whom were under the age of 14, between 2000 and 2010. The ring was operated out of Minneapolis, Columbus, and Nashville, and resulted in the indictment of 30 individuals involved.
In 2008, the Minneapolis Police Department created a Somali liaison position to focus solely on addressing the issue. The department currently has 5 Somali-speaking officers to assist in outreach to the immigrant community. According an MPR report from the time, officers began to notice that Somali gangs were dividing themselves along the same clan lines of their war-torn country.
The issue first garnered national attention after a 2009 CBS News report titled “Rise of Somali Gangs Plagues Minneapolis,” though officers were still hesitant at the time to pin the crimes on Somali gang activity.
“It was all gang activity, totally, 100 percent,” Shukri Adan, a Somali community organizer, said of the murders of seven Somali men in a 10-month period. Adan was tasked with drafting a report for the City of Minneapolis in which he estimated that between 400 and 500 Somali men were involved in gangs.
“The police don’t want to say that but everybody else knows that,” he added.
The latest rise in violent crimes in the Cedar-Riverside area comes as a concern to many, considering that city leaders have started to invest in security upgrades and community-outreach programs. In May, for instance, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey announced that a high-rise apartment complex at the center of little Mogadishu would be receiving an $825,000 security upgrade, including fencing, key fobs, and numerous security cameras.
In December, the Minneapolis City Council voted to divert $43,000 from the Minneapolis Police Department to create a youth outreach team for the area, Minnesota Daily reports.
“Everybody’s gotten to the point where, hey, you know, we don’t need more police, we need more intervention,” one organizer in attendance said. Several businesses in the area have joined together to hire off-duty police officers to patrol the area, while others are donating food and beverages to hand out to youth roaming the streets.
The Star Tribune reports that the latest uptick in violent crimes is mostly due to a surge in robberies and assaults.
– – –
Anthony Gockowski is managing editor of Battleground State News and The Minnesota Sun. Follow Anthony on Twitter. Email tips to [email protected].
Photo “Little Mogadishu” by Fibonacci Blue. CC BY 2.0.
Read the Article in THE STAR about how OMAR’S group BOASTED about getting articles Removed
[…] nicknamed “little Mogadishu,” violent crime has risen more than 50 percent in 2018. Authorities attribute this spike to violent Somali gangs in the area. Many of these gangs run sex-trafficking rings of young girls, […]
and those rings operate under the guise of childcare, while receiving MILLIONS in fraudulent grants (taxpayer paid), and sending the $$$$ on to terrorist orgs.
I am sending this news article to all our senators and representatives. Plus we are giving these people free college?
While taking our Granddaughter to the park, I met and talked to some of the Somali mothers and they were very pleasant. Several hod honest, decent husband who were working two jobs to provide for their families. I did the same to save up money to buy a house in 1982. I felt sorry for them in war torn Somalia where many had family members killed. We need to appeal to the parents to get their kids in line.
I doubt you’ll find many Minnesotans that can cite a positive contribution that Somali culture has brought to the State.
I live in Saint Paul and will verify that you are spot on. Thank you Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services!
Jonna Connely is either a troll or just plain ignorant, probably both. Send these idiot somalis back where they came from and anyone who thinks they are a good thing to bring here along with them.
You…we…the taxpayers are paying to erect these sh!t holes in our midst that will destroy us, because of the confiscation enabled by the 16th Amendment and through the misplaced compassion enabled by the 19th.
Being a counrty boy from Mn. I’m pissed at the government in my state for bringing this to my beautiful state. 😠 also lived in Tennessee for 9 years and helped build and create “NEXT TO HEAVEN” riding stables in Wears Valley. Go VOLS!!!!
Time to have the Marines run them back to Tripoli again,,,,
Maybe some in boxes… know what I mean?
No intelligence, laziness = somali pirates, somali gangs.
Barack Obama made “Lawlessness” Popular during his reign of death & destruction Worldwide! He MUST be made an example of what happens to this kind of tyranny in the World!
It is sad to see such violence no matter where it takes place. Very sad for the many good people who are impacted by it. I feel for them.
Lol this article 6 years old, just stop it🤦🏾♂️ And also lol at Little Mogadishu😂
Does that mean it is much better now?
you should research what has happened since.
more recent was the child sex ring, under the guise of “childcare,” that was exposed. they committed grant fraud (US tax $$$) to obtain MILLIONS, much of which went to terrorist orgs.
oh yeah — since this article, little mogadishu was identified as the terrorist recruiting capitol of the US.
the above idiot can laugh all he wants. but it makes him part of the problem.
btw, this was a purposely manufactured problem and it is being done in MANY places. MN was just unfortunate to get hundreds of thousands in one place.
i didn’t see comments about this being recent, v what the above jerk stated. it doesn’t change the items i brought up that are fairly recent. it absolutely is NOT better. and not going to. the horses have left the barn.
The problem has been getting worse year after year, nothing has improved . Very few of them work and just collect government handouts. Not a good situation .
It is even worse now. You should go visit it is getting as bad as San Fran. and LA. How could it get better they have no voter ID and illegal voters brag about voting on tv. Even kids voted the last time not to mention bus loads of people going from one polling place to the next.
Look at the date! The huge increase in crime was released in 2018!!! 😎
You’re a fool if you believe that things in Mpls and throughout the State, have gotten better.
It isn’t 6 years old it was published Jan 2 2019
Thank you Thomas. I was just about to comment.
2018 is not 6 years ago…did you read the entire article ?
January 2, 2019
How can the article be SIX years old if the statistics cited are from LAST year??? durrr
This article was written Jan. 2019. How is it six years old? It’s giving statistics from 2018. How is it six years old?
it’s not, but that commenter sounds 6 yrs old.
Look again – It’s not 6 years old, but only 6 months old; quite a difference!
ITS EVEN WORSE NOW
Lets drop ur ass off in the area at 2am and then we will LMFAO
If you import the third world, you will become the third world. Demographics is destiny.
Fact not fiction. Just look at what Europe has become. Welfare for all immigrants at natives expense.
@AB It is not just immigration that change demographics. The most dangerous of all is the import of mentality that does not stand up to any standard of a civilized country. This can put a country in great danger. There is nothing wrong with the immigration of qualified people from western countries. They can contribute to science, technology, CT, medicine, etc. and rock you to a new height. This is what had happened in the US when German scientists had fled Nazi Germany in the ’30. Many of them had worked later on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos and gave the States the nuclear bomb. They were also active in other fields than physics and math. But what had Clinton and Obama expected by bringing a whole bunch of thousands of ultra-primitive Muslim Africans into America? Judging both presidents the outcome puts red alarm lights. Clinton was a lousy GO-GETTER who’s motivation for presidentship was Getting rich. He had played the nice looking play-boy and had done nothing to combat terror threats: not after the Twin-Tower terror attack of 1993, not after the terror-attack on USS Cole and nothing against the growing power of Al Qaida and the Taliban. What he did was: importing black terrorists and criminals from Somalia & Eritrea to the USA. Why had he done that? Was he afraid that otherwise will America live without domestic terror attacks? Obama is even worse. The man is the son of a foreign Muslim African. He himself grew up as a Muslim. There were a lot of problems concerning his birth certificate. Nobody can prove whether he was born in the States. The first thing he did after his nomination to president, is declaring in an Islamic convention in Cairo: I am one of yours!. With more presidents like both and the States will fall apart. There is also no reason to nominate to Congres or Senat people like Ilhan Omar and the other Muslim one. They are simply not suitable to represent Americans.
Well written based on the reality of facts. Few people remember all the “movement” because of the roller coaster economies. Both administrations were striving to get rich for their efforts and pay a support system. Our govt needs to purge the kill based Muslims from the executive branch and senate. Weed them out of foreign matter depts. Or we are long range in a doom battle without the experienced Boomers to keep things in check.
Well said!
You are so right.
You bring up voting.
Actual legal Minnesota voters did Not vote for Omar or Ellison.
The illegals go8ng from pole to pole got them in office.
The libs no they can never win an election and enact their agenda unless they can stuff the ballot box with fraudulent votes
how can an illegal vote? you need ssn and voter card to vote…stop this nonsense.
simply not true, Paul (on illegals not being able to vote.)
illegal voting is rampant — illegal being the operative word. dead ppl, ppl not of legal age, and the above example of ppl being bused around to vote innumerable times DOES happen, and not in insignificant number.
another way is providing illegals with Driver’s Licenses, then passing a law that allows ONLY a DL to vote. both things illegal, btw, bub it is going on all over the country, with colorado doing so just recently. it is “announced” on the news as if a new flower shop opened up and as a fait accompli, with no prior knowledge of what our legislature is up to. one chink in the armor at a time.
it is easy to see which states are highest in priority of being taken over. MN is a done deal, and colorado is circling the drain,
All the gang members should be rounded up with their families and back they go.
Nearly a Million tax payer dollars for security. Could buy alot of air line tickets for that.
They had their chance here and they blew it.
none of it was coincidental. where do you think a lot of their $$$$ came from?
omar’s seat was BOUGHT for her, and her way (to cultivate a ppl who will accept the unacceptable out of ignorance) was paved with the loonies that preceded her, their positions also bought. not to mention same for all Presidents in my lifetime, and much much further back — until Trump.
The trouble makers need to be sent BACK TO SOMILIA. Let them see what real problems are and how lucky they are. If we do that, maybe the libs will change thelareir mind??????
the cartels just shot journalists and threatened to blow up some newspaper offices if they continued printing any negative articles against the cartels.
IT refuses to run columns and gives it to the Tenn. Newapaper, there is something rad.ically wrong. I am now down in Texas and the same thing here. I thought that Mexico was getting safe to travel because we had NO INFORMATIION on the cartels.The Brownsville paper was threatened if they kept reporting
Sad that so many look in the wrong places for information. Of course you were misled. Google hides the information people need to be safe, so no help there. Censorship abounds under the guise of “hate speech”. You’ll have to dig deeper.
The democrats have lost their way,they are so radical,they are by their own words demosocialist,progressives and proud of it.So lets educate ourselves on what that means.I was a union man for 37 yrs. Most working class people were sold out and did’t idenifiy with new DEMOSOCIALIST PARTY OF NEW.Most AMERICANS want the same thing,stzble goverment who protects and defends the NATION.THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS WHERE MOST ACERAGE AMERICANS FEEL MOST REPRESENTED.