{"id":1747,"date":"2007-12-05T05:39:21","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T10:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2007-12-05T05:39:21","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T10:39:21","slug":"were-gonna-need-some-more-police-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1747","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We&#8217;re Gonna Need Some More Police Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tracy at Anti-Strib on <a href=\"http:\/\/anti-strib.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/slip-sliding-away.html\">Minneapolis top cop Tim Dolan&#8217;s, er, <em>faux pas<\/em><\/a>\u00a0on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1343\">Loesch murder<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/563\/story\/1589365.html\"><font color=\"#3333ff\">Police Chief Tim Dolan uses the letters to the editor page of the Red Star<\/font><\/a> to squander what good will he had by trying to weasel out of the mess his department created by ruining the name of Mark Loesch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Flashback:\u00a0 the MPD tried to write\u00a0off the Loesch murder\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0in which a fortysomething father of four was beaten to death on\u00a0a nighttime bike ride through\u00a0the Phillips neighborhood &#8211; as drug-related.\u00a0 Loesch was trying to score weed, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1576\">so they\u00a0hinted<\/a> in public last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never indulged, but it strikes me (and many of Tracy&#8217;s commenters) as highly unlikely that\u00a0a\u00a0successful middle-aged guy would be buying\u00a0chiba from gang-bangers on the street; anyone who gets to be forty-something and hasn&#8217;t done jail time for\u00a0buying drugs likely buys it from a long-trusted, safe source.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0Keep this up and you&#8217;ll be gone in a year Tim.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracy at Anti-Strib on Minneapolis top cop Tim Dolan&#8217;s, er, faux pas\u00a0on the Loesch murder: Police Chief Tim Dolan uses the letters to the editor page of the Red Star to squander what good will he had by trying to weasel out of the mess his department created by ruining the name of Mark Loesch. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","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=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}