Report: Minnesota Spent Millions on Fraud-Ridden Programs Instead of Hiring Badly Needed Cops
Lowell Cauffiel10 Dec 202591
Police in Minnesota say despite the persistence of violent crime in the state, they’ve been stretched thin while leaders blew millions on programs rife with fraud, according to a report Wednesday by Fox News Digital.
Those priorities have come into focus as the state deals with a massive scandal involving “allegations of taxpayer money finding its way to the terrorist group Al-Shabaab in Somalia, all under the nose of Democratic leaders,” the news outlet reported.
“We’ve been down anywhere from 50 to over 100 officers since 2020, and we just haven’t recovered from that,” Mark Ross, president of the St. Paul Police Federation, told the outlet. “Right now we’re about a thousand police officers short in the state of Minnesota, and we’re on pace to lose another 2,000 to 2,500 over the next few years.”
According to the Fox report:
https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2025/12/10/31619937report-minnesota-spent-millions-on-fraud-ridden-programs-instead-of-hiring-badly-needed-cops/