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| More Minnesota sex offenders are breaking probation |
| By startribune.com- Abby Simons |
| Published: 03/09/2015 |
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At the very moment Brian Fitch Sr. gunned down Mendota Heights police officer Scott Patrick on a sunny July afternoon last year, he had spent two months on a list of Minnesota Department of Corrections fugitives. But Fitch, a violent felon with a decades-long rap sheet, was a low priority for the department’s Fugitive Apprehension Unit. The five-man team of sworn police officers is on the street, tasked with capturing convicts who break terms of their release from prison. Fitch was lower priority not because he wasn’t dangerous, but because he wasn’t a predatory sex offender. In the face of legislative mandates, community fears and a growing population of prisoners rejoining society, the number of Level 3 sex offenders who skip out on or otherwise violate their parole is climbing, and their high risk to reoffend puts them atop the list for the understaffed unit. Read More. |
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