{"id":59780,"date":"2016-08-01T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59780"},"modified":"2016-07-31T19:01:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T00:01:22","slug":"59780","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59780","title":{"rendered":"Defining &#8220;Crime&#8221; Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThat means minor crimes that take place at school, such as trespassing, truancy, theft and drug use, she said, would be \u201cdealt with more appropriately in other ways\u201d that don\u2019t involve arrest and prosecution.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">All crimes?\u00a0 Or only crimes committed by Students Whose Lives Matter, to make the statistics come out better? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">What a rude shock when you leave school and find out there are laws in place and people expect you to follow them.<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emergencymgmt.com\/safety\/New-contract-could-mean-changing-roles-for-police-in-St-Paul-schools.html\"> Thugs will encounter kindler, gentler police when police encounter kindler, gentler thugs<\/a>.\u00a0 Until then . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">I&#8217;ll differ with Joe in degree, here; we\u00a0<em>do\u00a0<\/em>have too many arrestable crimes in this country. \u00a0Truancy? \u00a0Marijuana possession? \u00a0Minor driving offenses? \u00a0Please.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0 Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: \u201cThat means minor crimes that take place at school, such as trespassing, truancy, theft and drug use, she said, would be \u201cdealt with more appropriately in other ways\u201d that don\u2019t involve arrest and prosecution.\u201d All crimes?\u00a0 Or only crimes committed by Students Whose Lives Matter, to make the statistics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-education","category-indoctrinate-u"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59780","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=59780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59784,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59780\/revisions\/59784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}