Minneapolis Rounds Up Transients; Deaths Cited
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS —
Police targeted transients’ shacks and shelters for demolition and promised an aggressive campaign of arrests Friday after a homicide unit report showed that two-thirds of the suspects and half of the victims in the city’s homicides this year were drifters or new arrivals.
An estimated 500 transients live under the city’s bridges and near railroad tracks, according to police figures.
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