Crime Prevention Unit

Creative solutions to deter crime

The Crime Prevention Unit encourages neighbors to look out for each other and report any criminal activity.

The Crime Prevention Unit addresses an array of concerns from residents and businesses, including traffic safety, neighborhood disputes and crime prevention. Police have collaborated with other City departments and governmental units since the 1980s to employ design elements to deter crime.

The following programs were developed to reduce the potential of our residents and businesses becoming crime victims.

Business Watch: crime prevention for businesses.
Citizen’s Police Academy and Advanced Citizen’s Police Academy.
Conflict Resolution Center member.
Crime Free Multi-Housing: crime prevention for apartments.
Crime stats: current crime trends and where they are occurring.
Crime prevention and safety tips.
Fax Crime Alert Program.
Kids' safety: tips and links to games.
Neighborhood Watch: set up this program in your neighborhood.
Ordinances, such as KNOX-BOX and False Alarm.
Predatory offenders: information on predatory offenders in our community.
Speaker’s Bureau.

Predatory offenders

Legislative findings and purpose: "The legislature finds that if members of the public are provided adequate notice and information about a predatory offender who has been or is about to be released from custody and who lives or will live in or near their neighborhood, the community can develop constructive plans to prepare themselves and their children for the offender's release." The public risk posed by a predatory offender about to be release is assessed by a committee of experts. The offender is given a risk level by the Department of Corrections. Information about the offender, including their risk level, is sent to the law enforcement agency having primary jurisdiction over the area in which the offender plans to reside. The level of risk posed by the offender determines to whom law enforcement may disclose information. The following is an explanation of the levels assigned to each offender and who may be informed of their release.

Level 1: Low risk

Law enforcement may notify:

Other law enforcement agencies.
Any victims of, or witnesses to, the offense committed by the offender.

Level 2: Moderate risk

In addition to Level 1 notification, law enforcement may notify:

Schools and daycares.
Establishments and organizations that primarily serve individuals likely to be victimized by the offender.

Level 3: High risk

In addition to Level 2 notifications, law enforcement may notify:

Other members of the community whom the offender is likely to encounter.

To learn more and to conduct a Level 3 Predatory Offender search to retrieve public information about Level 3 offenders or locate information about adult offenders who have been committed to the Commissioner of Corrections, and who are still under our jurisdiction (i.e. in prison, or released from prison and still under supervision), visit the Department of Corrections external link .

For more information, contact:

Crime Prevention Unit, Bloomington Police Department
PH: 952-563-4900, FAX: 952-563-4936
E-mail: police@ci.bloomington.mn.us