Organized crime in Minneapolis

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Minneapolis Organized Crime (1900-2000). Book in the Minneapolis Downtown Library Minneapolis, MN

Minneapolis organized crime was first fully visible with Mayor Doc Ames (1842-1911) and his brother Ed being exposed in the book, The Shame of Our Cities, in 1903. This book showed the corruption, graft, opium dens, houses of prostitution, and a police force of ex-felons coming from state prisons in Illinois, running Minneapolis into the ground. Doc Ames quickly moved to rural Indiana for a very short retirement (and life), while his brother Ed was sent to prison.

Next came Isadore (Kid Cann) Bloomenfeld (1900-1980), who was the most powerful gangster in the city’s history, along with his brother Yiddy, rival gangster Dave (The Dude) Berman, and his brother Chickie. These Jewish gangsters contributed to a bloody carnage running bootleg booze, gambling, and brothels. They were supervised directly by Bugsy Seigal of New York, who represented the National Crime Syndicate founded in 1934 by his supervisors Charles (Lucky) Luciano and Meyer (Little Man) Lansky.

Finally we have Deuce Casper(1936-2003) Baldy street gang founder and boss. Here over 1,000 thugs roamed the streets from 1955 – 1975 creating mayhem and fear. Deuce Casper himself robbed banks, jewelry stores and armored cars, while his cohorts robbed commercial businesses and ran massive drug dealing operations.

The most notable Baldy was Perry (The Scholar) Millik (1944 – 2003), who ran commercial burglary rings, drug manufacturing houses, was involved in massive real estate frauds, and was the front man for real estate purchases for the infamous Alexander Brothers (porn and prostitution kings).

Today George Patterson and Jack Capra run the illegal gambling in the Twin Cities, as well as other nefarious enterprises sanctioned by New York City.

The Black and Hispanic gangs, along with the biker gangs like the Hell’s Angels, also are a problem for this metropolitan area of three million people.

(For further information, please refer to the book Minneapolis Organized Crime 1900- 2000 in the Minneapolis Downtown Library. This book contains over 150 photographs of these infamous characters).

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