Shane Zahn
Shane Zahn is Senior Director of Community Safety for the Minneapolis Downtown Council and Downtown Improvement District, where he has helped shape downtown safety strategy since the DID’s creation in 2009. His work brings together law enforcement, outreach teams, private security, businesses, residents, and public-space management—approaching safety not simply as enforcement, but through collaboration, activation, environmental design, and attention to both real and perceived safety. Before joining the DID, Shane spent nine years in asset protection at Target and helped lead the Minneapolis SafeZone Collaborative, an early public-private effort that eventually became part of the Downtown Improvement District