{"id":60468,"date":"2016-10-04T11:30:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T16:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60468"},"modified":"2016-10-02T19:31:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T00:31:58","slug":"60468","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60468","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re #25!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>24\/7 Wall Street <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2016\/09\/29\/minneapolis-dangerous-cities-violent-crime\/\">calls Minneapolis the 25th most dangerous city in the US,<\/a> based on FBI stats:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Minneapolis landed on the 25th spot on the list, with a violent crime rate of 1,063 incidents per 100,000 residents. The website noted that robbery is especially common in Minneapolis, with 459 reported incidents per 100,000 residents \u2013 the 10th highest robbery rate in the nation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The story &#8211; from WCCO &#8211; notes that despite the city&#8217;s nominally low unemployment, that&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the city has struggled with stark racial disparities, with people of color, particularly blacks, making less money, having lower home ownership rates and higher unemployment rates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Right &#8211; fully a third of Minnesota&#8217;s murders,\u00a0<em>for the whole state<\/em>, in the past year occurred on the North Side, which has a neighborhood murder rate of 100\/100,000. \u00a0Which is, quite frankly, catastrophic.<\/p>\n<p>But chalking up the murder rate to income, home ownership rates and unemployment is an evasion of responsibility; as PJ O&#8217;Rourke once said, &#8220;if you took away his bank account, it&#8217;s not like you&#8217;d find Thurgood Marshall selling crack at Union Station the next day&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Is the crime rate in Minneapolis (the article painstakingly avoids mentioning the North Side) a result of poverty, or is the poverty a result of the crime and cultural breakdown?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24\/7 Wall Street calls Minneapolis the 25th most dangerous city in the US, based on FBI stats: Minneapolis landed on the 25th spot on the list, with a violent crime rate of 1,063 incidents per 100,000 residents. The website noted that robbery is especially common in Minneapolis, with 459 reported incidents per 100,000 residents \u2013 [&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-60468","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\/60468","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=60468"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60482,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60468\/revisions\/60482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}