Duluth police officers intervened at 26 college parties in campus neighborhoods over Labor Day weekend, according to statistics provided by the department on Wednesday.
Nearly 100 hours of patrol time was dedicated from Sept. 2-4 to identify and interrupt parties and other disturbances before neighbors called 911, according to a police news release.
Twenty-five underage consumption tickets were given while three people were cited for having open containers of alcohol in public. Two people were arrested on warrants. Police also arrested or cited one person for urinating in public, one for fleeing on foot, one for damage to property and one for disorderly conduct.
Duluth police say they have stepped up overall efforts to address concerns related to college housing through reassigning community police officers to college neighborhoods and disseminating educational information to students. They are also coordinating with area law enforcement agencies -- including help for the first time from Minnesota State Patrol officers in DWI enforcement -- to enforce city and state laws.
Police are providing the names of students involved in off-campus behavior violations to school officials, holding landlords accountable for tenant nuisance behavior through rental license revocation and working with building inspectors to address unlicensed, unsafe and illegal rental properties.
