Minneapolis
We track smashed windows and rifled-through cars to report to city hall.
Report a car break-in in under a minute. Enough reports and we can show exactly where and when this is happening, hotspots and then take that to the police and city hall.
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MPD data last synced Sep 29, 2026 at 9:43 PM CT.
Reports by month
What's on the map this year
How these have trended since 2021
Minneapolis Police Department's own numbers, imported and counted by this site, year by year. Not resident reports -- these are MPD's official records for each category.
Theft from motor vehicle
Destruction/damage/vandalism of property
Motor vehicle theft
Source: this site's import of Minneapolis Police Department open data. The current year is projected: the year-to-date count divided by the share of the year's total that was already recorded by this date in 2021 through last year. The dashed line and hollow marker are the projection, the solid dot is the actual count so far. Hover or tap a year for exact numbers. "Destruction/damage/ vandalism of property" is MPD's own category name and isn't vehicle-specific -- see the map for details.
Why this exists
Police don't track this the way we need them to. Their data has a category for a car getting broken into, "Theft From Motor Vehicle," but it doesn't say how someone got in -- a smashed window and someone rifling through your glovebox get lumped into the same record. There's no field for what actually happened.
Most people don't report it either. When a window gets smashed and nothing is missing what are the police going to do about it? A police report is never created and neither is that data point. Multiply that by every car on your block and there's no record of any of it anywhere.
This site fixes both problems. Report a window getting smashed or a car getting rifled through, block by block, date by date. Right now the map is mostly MPD's own numbers -- car break-ins, parts theft, and full vehicle theft -- since that's what exists until enough of you report your own. After a while we can go to police and city hall with specifics about what's going on: which blocks, which times, how often.
Your privacy
Locations shown on the map are snapped to the block and never the exact address. This is how the MPD saves their data and so do we. It's all in the name of privacy. After you submit a report we also point you to Minneapolis Police Department's online reporting, since this site is meant to complement official channels, not replace them.