Duluth Crime Wave
By Canada on Jan 28, 2012 in Current Events
Is anybody else a little freaked out about all the crime in Duluth lately?
A 62-year-old friend of mine was walking home from work a few weeks ago and was brutally assaulted with a hammer by St. Mary’s parking ramp and the perpetrator was never found. There was no report of this in the media.
Now this week we have muggings and a bloody dead body found on Michigan St. How come the media is not covering this? Should we start a Duluth Crime Facebook page to keep each other informed?
What do you think?
There was a double-purse snatching/beating incident in Superior on the morning of Jan. 27. That’s not Duluth, but close enough. It was reported in the media.
There were two purse snatchings in downtown Duluth — Jan. 23 and 25. Both were reported in the media.
The dead body in Duluth was also covered by the media.
I haven’t heard about the alleged hammering until now, but that’s absolutely not something media would actively ignore, so I suspect if it went unreported it’s because no one in the media was tipped off about it by police.
Obviously every one of these crimes is a shame, and I have the greatest sympathy for the victims, but I’m not quite sure it constitutes a “wave” of crime. But, of course, the term is relative and cannot be neatly defined.
Oh, there was also a fatal shooting in Superior on Jan. 15, so we do seem to be getting close to a “wave.”
Here is a link to a crime map that tracks and marks crime in Duluth (and other cities). This was posted by baci a few years ago. Worth bookmarking if you are interested in tracking those sorts of things.
If Duluth needs a superhero to rid the area of crime, I think it should be Mosquito Man. He could drain the criminals of all their blood.
But I suppose Mosquito Man’s weakness would be that he lays dormant in the soil during winter.
No, Paul we don’t need a superhero. We should listen to Tina Turner. Google “St. Cloud Superman.”
I’m sorry, did Duluth just become Thunderdome?
Two go in!
One comes out!
Master Blaster runs Bartertown.
Not to be a post-apocalyptic womp womp, but technically:
“Two men enter, one man leaves!”
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen that movie. I will not dispute the quotation.
I heard about the hammer attack, it was one of the muggings reported in the news.
It’s not a crime wave, it is simply a winter that is not oppressively cold. When it is not 40 below, more people are out walking in the dark. When it is not 40 below, more criminals are not hiding in their crack dens.
Then again, it could just be someone who is really fiending for Synthetic Marijuana… Damn you LPOE.
I’ve been assaulted a number of times in Duluth over the past 15 years… it helps to take precautions and avoid putting yourself in danger. When all else fails, don’t be an easy victim.
Agreeing with the weather theory.
If Duluth is turning into a Mad Max movie, I think my chances of survival are pretty good. I’ll be the first to establish a BDSM-esque biker gang.
Embargo…lifted!
The assault with the hammer happened on January 9 2012 @ 5:30 PM.
The muggings were assaults on women during the daytime. One was @
7:30 am on Wednesday on 3rd Ave East and the other was in the casino
parking ramp @ 12:30 PM. Also heard of a prisoner that was brought
to the courthouse for sentencing recently and escaped. Where did he go?
Embargo?
Don’t ask me … Jessege brought up Thunderdome. I was just going with it.
The Duluth Police Dept. has released an update to its investigation of the death of Edward Olson.