With a significant drop in violent crime so far this year, Minneapolis public safety officials are hoping to keep it that way as we approach a very busy summer of events in the city.
Police, emergency and neighborhood outreach officials detailed their summer safety plans before a city council committee.
MPD Assistant Chief of Operations Katie Blackwell says their curfew task force and downtown late night safety detail will expand into Uptown and Dinkytown
"This is really an overall wellness check for juveniles and our officers and investigators ," says Blackwell, " that have conducted these late night safety plan, as well as going to their houses to check on these at risk youth and have gained a lot of good relationships with families. It's been very successful."
One hiccup in public safety is a gap in Minneapolis' violence interrupter program, which has not been operating since the last contract expired at the end of March.
Deputy Director of Neighborhood Safety Lea Lakes says completing and signing those contracts is their top priority.
"We are not excited to ever have any gaps in service so it is what we are putting one hundred percent of our priority on."
Minneapolis has seen a significant drop in violent crime so far this year, including a two-month period without a homicide.