By: Alida Tieberg
University of Minnesota administrators announced Wednesday that the school will be more selective about its use of suspect descriptions in crime alerts.
The school will now include suspect descriptions in its alerts only if there is information specific enough to help identify a person or group, according to an email sent to University faculty members, students and staff.
After more than a year of unease surrounding the use of racial descriptors for suspects in crime alerts, some say the change is a step in the right direction.