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Businesses have fled, and property values have collapsed. The 31-story Ameriprise Financial Center, purchased for $200 million in 2016, was sold this year for $6.25 million. That's just three percent of its old value.

Prominent Minneapolis attorney Chris Madel is one of those leaving the city, after years of taking photos of crimes being committed outside his office window. Someone was killed outside his office front door in August.

Madel told us, "I have always loved downtown Minneapolis, but it has gotten to a point where I'm up at night worried about my employees when I'm hearing them getting accosted on their way to work. There have been times on Monday or Tuesday mornings at 9 or 10 A.M. when we hear gunshots. None of it is reported."

Property owner Jeff Svedahl left Minneapolis for Utah after losing millions from crime and falling property values after the 2020 riots.

He told us, "Tenants would call the police and get no response, or the police wouldn't come out. There was more and more crime. I had to park my car on the street and it was broken into five times in a year, five times in a year…one car. We had windows smashed in all the time. So, I'm not going back anytime soon."

There were more than 500 car break-ins from July to August this year. Minneapolis police said they spotted some of the suspects but did not pursue them because of department policy.

Liz Collin, a local news reporter in Minneapolis for 15 years and now the Senior Reporter at Alpha News, told us, "We've interviewed many people who call 911 in Minneapolis. They'll be placed on hold. Some people have told me that sometimes they'll have to call back several times, or that they won't even answer at all."

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MINNEAPOLIS – Lifelong residents of Minneapolis will tell you there was a time they could walk the city's streets without a care. If the old Minneapolis was anything, it was clean and safe. Today, in many parts of Minneapolis, those days are gone.

Residents Don't Know if Police Will Come, or Even Answer Their Call

While there are still some nice-looking areas, parts of Minneapolis range from risky to dangerous. There are homeless encampments, and addicts roaming the sidewalks get free needles from the city.

The police department is reportedly down from some 900 officers to 550. Residents tell us 911 calls often go unanswered. Some have given up reporting crimes.

Police communications are now encrypted, so citizens can no longer track crimes.

Statistics show that some categories of crime are lower than last year. Minnesota State Representative Walter Hudson doesn't buy it.

"No, crime hasn't gone down. Reports of crime have gone down because you create a culture where the citizen knows they're not going to get an answer from 911. The citizen knows the officers are not going to be there for an hour. The citizen knows that even if the officers get there and apprehend their offender, that offender's going to turn right around 24 hours later and probably come back for retribution because you called the cops."

Where's the "destroyed city"?