For the first time since Minneapolis launched Operation Endeavor, Mayor Jacob Frey and city leaders provided an update on crime trends throughout the city.
Compared to October of last year, city data shows crime is down in several categories, three of which dropped in the past 28 days, carjackings most significantly, with a 36% decrease.
Despite the progress compared to 2021, the decreasing crime numbers are still higher than the city experienced at any point in 2019.
"Better does not mean good," Frey said. "The fact that things are improving substantially based on the data does not mean we are where we want to be."
The data comes after the city experienced its 72nd homicide of the year and more reports of altercations downtown.
Frey says they can never eliminate 100% of the violence, but the new commissioner of community safety, Cedric Alexander, wants the city to be better positioned to deal with it.
"We hope to be in a place where we can get in front of this particular crime, as opposed to coming behind it, as we have here in recent weeks," Alexander said.
The report showed the city's crime-fighting initiative Operation Endeavor as part of that success. At its implementation earlier this fall, carjackings are down 36%, gunshot victims are down 17 %, and gun-related calls for service are down 5%.
All those numbers have dropped further compared to 2021 levels.
While the new data shows improvement, city leaders say there is still plenty more to be done to make the city as safe as possible.
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