Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
An electrician friend had his van broken into, hundreds of dollars of copper wire stolen.\u00a0 Repeatedly.<\/p>\n
The cops wrote a police report so he can report it to his insurance company.\u00a0 But there\u2019s a $500 deductible for each incident, so the few nickels the thieves make selling scrap wire cost him thousands of dollars out-of-pocket.\u00a0 Thievery in Minnesota is a \u201ccost of doing business.\u201d<\/p>\n
Minnesota is too civilized to punish thieves by cutting off their hands and thereby dissuade others.\u00a0 We put them on probation to steal again.<\/p>\n
Minnesota is too civilized to punish thieves.\u00a0 Nobody is dissuaded from crime.<\/p>\n
Minnesota is too civilized, too afraid of offending the offensive.<\/p>\n
Minnesota is . . . doomed?<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
When citizens can’t count on “law and order” to uphold the law and preserve order (and, let’s be honest, also count on law enforcement to prosecute organic civilian efforts to enforce law and order more rigorously than actual criminality), how long\u00a0can\u00a0<\/em>a free society survive?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: An electrician friend had his van broken into, hundreds of dollars of copper wire stolen.\u00a0 Repeatedly. The cops wrote a police report so he can report it to his insurance company.\u00a0 But there\u2019s a $500 deductible for each incident, so the few nickels the thieves make selling scrap wire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55414","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=55414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55415,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55414\/revisions\/55415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}