{"id":14506,"date":"2010-10-20T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14506"},"modified":"2010-10-20T06:01:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T11:01:06","slug":"a-new-day-in-ramsey-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14506","title":{"rendered":"A New Day In Ramsey County?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Strib endorses\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/opinion\/editorials\/105306383.html?page=1&amp;c=y\">Matt Bostrom<\/a> for Ramco Sheriff:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sheriff Bob Fletcher is seeking a fifth term as the top county cop and police chief for seven Ramsey county municipalities. Challenging him is Matt Bostrom, an assistant chief with the St. Paul police.<\/p>\n<p>Though Fletcher, 55, has performed some of the duties of the office effectively, the department needs a fresh start under a more collaborative leader. We recommend Bostrom for the job.<\/p>\n<p>Bostrom, a 49-year-old St. Paul native, has 28 years of experience &#8212; much of it in management &#8212; as a St. Paul cop&#8230;Most important, he has the temperament and a record of working well with other government law enforcement jurisdictions. That&#8217;s a much-needed skill, since police, prosecutors and the courts will have to work together more closely in the future to make the best use of limited resources.<\/p>\n<p>Temperament and leadership style are our primary concerns about Fletcher. The first time the former St. Paul officer and City Council member ran for sheriff, this editorial page expressed concern that he might stretch the office&#8217;s mandates and make it too political. Those concerns were justified.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s been noted that Fletcher&#8217;s office has by far the highest rate of rejections for carry permit applications &#8211; rejection that are by no means related to actual unfitness for permits under the law, a rate well over 10%, vastly higher than any other county in the state. \u00a0The county also claims to lose money on carry permit applications &#8211; the $100 fee that applicants pay &#8211; even though every other county in the state ends up spending a little over a buck per permit, and the labor is performed by dispatchers during slack times.<\/p>\n<p>More on that issue later this week.<\/p>\n<p>But as a resident of Ramco, I have no comment.<\/p>\n<p>None whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Vote Bostrom.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strib endorses\u00a0Matt Bostrom for Ramco Sheriff: Sheriff Bob Fletcher is seeking a fifth term as the top county cop and police chief for seven Ramsey county municipalities. Challenging him is Matt Bostrom, an assistant chief with the St. Paul police. Though Fletcher, 55, has performed some of the duties of the office effectively, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14506"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14510,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14506\/revisions\/14510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}