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People cross 1st Avenue along Superior Street on April 11 in downtown Duluth. (Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

If Duluth crime is down, why are residents afraid?

Eric Faust opened his coffee roastery during the height of downtown Duluth’s synthetic drug crisis, fueled by a notorious scofflaw head shop.

It was “a super low point,” for the neighborhood, he said of the time more than a dozen years ago, when drug-seeking lines snaked down Superior Street across from his shop. Read more.

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