Ah, Minneapolis, the city I will love to leave next year. While it is not yet on par with Portland, Seattle, or, God forbid, Chicago, it is nonetheless sliding into decline.
It’s sad to see. While I have long thought that the residents of the city had an outsized ego regarding its nearness to paradise, I have to admit that on many levels it punched above its weight. While not especially beautiful, and far less “cultured” than it believed, it has been a decent place to live until COVID hit.
Far too liberal for my taste, and often annoying, but what city isn’t? We should have moved to the suburbs, but we were younger and dumber then.
Since COVID and the George Floyd riots, the city has rapidly gone downhill, although there is still enough resistance that Omar Fateh lost his bid to oust Mayor Jacob Frey, meaning that the city is governed by a progressive rather than a radical.
ℹ️ Earlier tonight, I was the victim of a carjacking. I’m safe and home with my family in Phillips West.
I really appreciate the quick response from @MinneapolisPD – and the outreach from @MayorFrey and Chief @MplsPDChief O’Hara.
👇🏾Full statement below. pic.twitter.com/FEzjQmrosE
— Jamal Osman (@JamalOsmanMN) November 11, 2025
Still, the city is struggling. Property crime is still off the charts, and while carjackings have been slowly declining, the decline has been from record levels. Until recently, carjackings were so rare that the police didn’t even bother to count them as separate crimes, and the state didn’t have a law specifically aimed at the crime. They were lumped in with theft and robbery. It was only in 2023 that the legislature created the crime of carjacking and made it a felony with severe sentences.
During and after the disastrous year of 2020, carjackings became common in Minneapolis, with 650 in 2021, or two a day. Now they occur, or are at least reported, at the rate of about one about every two or three days. The new “hot” crime is breaking into cars parked on the street, with hundreds of occurrences a month. In a one-month period this summer, over 400 cars were broken into.
Yikes. Each break-in, even if nothing is taken, costs hundreds of dollars for the victims. It sucks. Luckily, we have a garage.
While event traffic has slowly risen in the past year, Minneapolis’ downtown recovery is still one of the slowest in the nation, with office vacancies hovering around 30% and foot traffic during the week still about half of what it was pre-COVID/riots. Taylor Swift, of all people, accounted for much of the recovery in 2024. Her sold-out concerts brought in a boatload of people, but that is hardly a basis for claiming we are BACK, BABY!
Workday traffic is still below 50% of pre-pandemic levels. Not good. “Office vacancies” can be a lagging indicator because of longer-term leases, where empty offices still count as “occupied.”
Much of the problem stems from the fact that, believe it or not, Mayor Frey, the wildly progressive, counts as a conservative compared to many on the city council. They have clashed over policies that might help restore vitality.
Not to mention the fact that our County prosecutor has been a “don’t prosecute anybody” Soros prosecutor.
Needless to say, Margaret and I will be happy to leave for more hospitable climes. While the Detroit suburbs are hardly a conservative nirvana, they are wildly better than here.
Well, except for Dearborn. Sigh.
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