II. The state argues that this court should narrowly construe section 609.765 to bring it within constitutional limits. A statute is invalid if its terms leave no room for a narrowing construction. Board of Airport Comm’rs v. Jews for Jesus, Inc., 482 U.S. 569, 575, 107 S. Ct. 2568, 2572 (1987). “Whenever possible, however, this court should narrowly construe a statute to save it from constitutional challenge.” Jude, 554 N.W.2d at 753. The state contends that we should follow the example provided in Crawley and narrowly interpret the statute. In Crawley, the defendant was convicted of knowingly making a false report of police misconduct, in violation of Minn. Stat. § 609.505, subd. 2 (2010). 819 N.W.2d at 98. The defendant appealed her conviction on the basis that the statute violated the First Amendment because it was a content-based regulation of speech, punishing some individuals depending on the viewpoint expressed about the police. Id. at 100. The pertinent part of the statutory provision at issue in Crawley provided: (a) Whoever informs, or causes information to be communicated to, a peace officer, whose responsibilities include investigating or reporting police misconduct, that a peace officer, as defined in section 626.84, subdivision 1, paragraph (c), has committed an act of police misconduct, knowing that the information is false, is guilty of a crime and may be sentenced as follows . . . . Id. at 98 (quoting Minn. Stat. § 609.505, subd. 2). In a divided decision, this court held section 609.505 unconstitutional because it criminalized false speech that was critical of police but not false speech that favors police. Id. at 99. 10