Dozens of vehicle windows have been smashed across the city of Minneapolis this week, including entire blocks in Northeast and southeast Minneapolis, as well as the Loring Park area.
Crime Watch Minneapolis began receiving reports of shattered windows early Tuesday on 13th Avenue Northeast in the area’s “arts district.” The city’s new 911 incident dashboard, that rolled out after Minneapolis police radios went to encryption in May, showed corresponding “damage to property” reports on that block, as well as property damage reports in several other areas of Northeast Minneapolis in the overnight hours early Tuesday. Due to the limited information provided on the dashboard, details were not immediately available on whether all the damage reports involved vehicle windows or whether any suspects had been identified or arrested.
A short time later, Crime Watch obtained video from a passerby in the Loring Park neighborhood that showed numerous vehicle windows broken near West 14th Street and La Salle Avenue. The video showed at least a dozen vehicles with windows smashed out on the block.
Also a bunch of vehicle windows smashed near Loring Park Minneapolis. pic.twitter.com/0uPBwKzkV7
— CrimeWatchMpls (@CrimeWatchMpls) July 15, 2025
Other messages received by Crime Watch about the incidents indicated that in many cases nothing was stolen from the vehicles.
The damage continued Tuesday to Wednesday overnight, with another rash of vehicles damaged in Northeast Minneapolis and the Marcy Holmes neighborhood of southeast Minneapolis near the mill area of St. Anthony Main.
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Another block full of shattered vehicle windows in SE Minneapolis Marcy Holmes on 2nd St SE. This makes dozens of vehicle windows smashed across the city since Monday. Any notification or warning from @MinneapolisPD or @MinneapolisOCS?? Nope. pic.twitter.com/0Rd8fkgspo— CrimeWatchMpls (@CrimeWatchMpls) July 16, 2025
Again, the 911 dashboard showed dozens of “damage to property” reports across the city, with many concentrated in Northeast Minneapolis near 24th and Marshall St. NE. Areas of known vehicle damage near Lowry and 2nd St. NE and in St. Anthony Main weren’t even showing up on the available 911 dashboard reports.
Dozens of property damage reports in Minneapolis overnight. Each line is a separate case number/incident.
This is just a 12-hour period from 11:30 p.m. last night. The useless 911 dashboard decays and deletes info after 12 hours so you can no longer see it.We are not being… pic.twitter.com/3l2tq9LxeG
— CrimeWatchMpls (@CrimeWatchMpls) July 16, 2025
Compounding the lack of information even further, the 911 dashboard incidents are only available for the most recent 12-hour period before disappearing from public view. By late Wednesday, neither the city nor the Minneapolis Police Department had issued a statement about the widespread damage reports.
Just a month ago, Northeast Minneapolis suffered another rash of smashed vehicle windows and slashed tires. In that spree, over 20 vehicles were reportedly damaged, but the 911 dashboard listed only one case number at the location of the damage, and listed the incident as a “suspicious person.”
There have been numerous other vehicle damage sprees reported across the city this year, including more in Northeast Minneapolis in May, 15-20 cars near the University of Minnesota in April, and “rows of cars” damaged near the lakes in south Minneapolis in March.
Local car insurance rates have skyrocketed as much as 55% recently. However, local media outlets attribute the rise to climate change and President Trump’s tariffs.
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