The Minnesota Connection

A detailed Summary of The Minnesota Connection

The Minnesota Connection is a true story written from police records, interviews with ex-prostitutes and pimps, and the personal experiences of Al Palmquist and numerous other officers of the Minneapolis Police Department.

The primary purpose of this book is to expose serious problems that need to be solved.

Prostitution has always been a problem in Minneapolis, as in all large cities. The Mayor's office and the police department sought to control, if not end, the vicious game that destroyed women mentally and physically. But arresting and convicting the whores without rehabilitation accomplished little and salvaged few lives.

She arrived with multiple scalp lacerations bleeding into her hair so badly you could not tell she was blonde, a smashed nose, chest and back furrowed with bleeding welts, abdomen a mass of gray pits with angry red rims caused by cigarette burns. She was struggling in the arms of a Minneapolis police officer. She had been found lying next to a dead girl, as beaten as she, and holding a gun. But her hands had been broken. She had been arrested for murder, or was she also a victim?

On the street they called her Candy, she was 14yrs old.

Photos were taken of her injuries but with no corroborating witnesses, the County Attorney could not build a case.

At gun point, she was forced to endure anal sex with a succession of men.

Ginger is nineteen, she has been a prostitute for three years. She'd worked in saunas and rap parlors, but mostly the streets. She had a child and was trying to escape to a better life for him. Her pimp was the father. The baby was in a foster home.

As word of Mr. Palmquist's mission spread, girls began disappearing from the Minnesota Strip. Empty handed, he returned home, planning his next visit.

Mr. Palmquist encouraged reporters to run stories about Safe House in the newspapers, and he publicly announced he was leaving for New York to investigate the Minnesota Strip.

Ellen turned fourteen, a month later she ran away from a domineering and overly protective father. While wandering aimlessly in Minneapolis she was approached by a well dressed young man. He offered her lunch, marijuana, and a place to put up for the night. Believing he really cared about her she felt safe, momentarily serene, free of worries. The gaming began. The next morning she was introduced to her teacher. Her studies began with a lurid description of the traditional coat hanger whippings for disobedience.

A lady cop accompanied to help supervise and protect the young people, especially the girls who were subject to the fear syndrome and obvious targets for the pimps. The New York detectives assigned to Select Committee on Crime were to meet and assist. The trip had been kept secret, with only the Minneapolis authorities and the Select Committee on Crime knowing of the plans.

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Approximate Word count = 2344
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Novels