Mankato crime may not be like New York, Chicago, or even Minneapolis crime, but we're also not "in Kansas anymore."
That was one of the favorite phrases of former Mankato Public Safety Director Glenn Gabriel when he came across a crime that was more serious than one would expect in a town like Mankato.
It was a reference of course to the line in the movie Wizard of Oz when Dorothy and her dog Toto discover the tornado that hit their home has landed them in a very different place, much less innocent than the proverbial Kansas.
We've begun tracking crime in Mankato through police reports in an online crime map that we keep updated as crimes occur. We don't report every assault, only the more serious ones that seem to be done in more public places.
In October, we've tracked four serious assaults and one robbery through the 19th. In September, our tracking showed four assaults, five sexual assaults, a car crashing into police and two other instances of drunk drivers hitting pedestrians or other cars, and two robberies.
This seems above the norm from what I'm used to seeing. The robberies could be related to the economy. Some of the assaults are related to excessive drinking.
The crime map details each crime, with time, date, place and circumstances.
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