{"id":50882,"date":"2015-01-27T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50882"},"modified":"2015-01-24T15:12:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T21:12:17","slug":"surprise-surprise-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50882","title":{"rendered":"Surprise, Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who predicted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/aug\/24\/chicago-crime-rate-drops-as-concealed-carry-gun-pe\/\">this<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah &#8211; all the good guys.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">Since Illinois started granting concealed carry permits this year, the number of robberies that have led to arrests in Chicago has declined 20 percent from last year, according to police department statistics. Reports of burglary and motor vehicle theft are down 20 percent and 26 percent, respectively. In the first quarter, the city\u2019s homicide rate was at a 56-year low.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt isn\u2019t any coincidence crime rates started to go down when concealed carry was permitted. Just the idea that the criminals don\u2019t know who\u2019s armed and who isn\u2019t has a deterrence effect,\u201d said Richard Pearson, executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association. \u201cThe police department hasn\u2019t changed a single tactic \u2014 they haven\u2019t announced a shift in policy or of course \u2014 and yet you have these incredible numbers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As you were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who predicted this? Oh, yeah &#8211; all the good guys. Since Illinois started granting concealed carry permits this year, the number of robberies that have led to arrests in Chicago has declined 20 percent from last year, according to police department statistics. Reports of burglary and motor vehicle theft are down 20 percent and 26 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50882","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=50882"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50895,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50882\/revisions\/50895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}