A statewide stay-at-home order and closures of bars, restaurants and places of entertainment didn’t have a large effect on crime in 2020 but it did change the way law enforcement and the courts dealt with it.
For less serious crimes, summons were issued rather than arresting and holding someone until a court date. That was in part because court dates weren’t happening at the start of pandemic. After ramping up to nearly full court functions by summer, the courts once again tamped down in-person hearings and suspended jury trials in most cases as fall turned to winter.
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Personal Protective Equipment, or PPE, became an important and sometimes hard to come by gear for emergency medical responders, fire departments and law enforcement. A shortage of PPE temporarily forced the suspension of at least one first response service, the Stewartville Fire and Rescue.
The year also proved deadly for drivers on Minnesota roads. In early December, the death toll surpassed that of all of 2019 traffic deaths with 367 people being killed on Minnesota roads this year.
The year may have also sped along a conversation on the future of the Olmsted County Juvenile Detention Center, which was ultimately closed its doors in April due to budget constraints and the declining JDC population. The Rochester Police Department and the Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office expanded its embedded social worker program and the first person to hold the position in the county left her role to work for another local government agency.
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