{"id":73030,"date":"2020-01-10T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73030"},"modified":"2020-01-09T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T16:08:00","slug":"saint-paul-good-news-and-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73030","title":{"rendered":"Saint Paul:  Good News And Bad News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Homicide doubled in Saint Paul last year &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/overall-violent-crime-dropped-in-st-paul-last-year-despite-record-number-of-gun-deaths\/566818162\/?fbclid=IwAR2n3KfUiuzb2eBNlJBax5eyAjXVZyo_2wQzbiPtGtIiIleModPOIuhY2Yg&amp;refresh=true\">but violent crime in general was down<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A Star Tribune analysis of newly released police data shows that while homicides soared in 2019, reports of aggravated assaults, rapes and robberies decreased, contributing to a reduction in overall violent crime. However, property crime reports grew by nearly 12% during the same period.<br><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And the hike in property crime may have been a result of the city&#8217;s response to the homicides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>To keep pace with the bloodshed, Police Chief Todd Axtell tapped federal agents to assist with criminal investigations and shifted staff within the department to better manage the growing caseload.<\/em><br><em>The strategy meant fewer proactive policing visits and an increase in property crimes, characterized as burglary, theft and arson. Auto theft and larceny, in particular, saw double-digit growth.<\/em><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>So if homicide is spiking, but violent crime in general is down &#8211; which comports with data around the rest of the country &#8211; then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72592\">I&#8217;m inclined to think that Sheriff Fletcher is right<\/a> &#8211; the murder spree is the result of inter-gang beeves going back over a decade, being settled on the streets today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that the metro&#8217;s DFL legislative contingent&#8217;s maniacal, cancerous support for stricter gun control is geometricaly off-point.  If you leave out gang-related shootings &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72979\">which are hard to identify,<\/a> but certainly a huge part of the death tool this year &#8211; the conclusion is inescapable; it&#8217;s not the law-abiding citizen doing the killing.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And gang members don&#8217;t take background checks, and they don&#8217;t file red flag complaints on each other.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homicide doubled in Saint Paul last year &#8211; but violent crime in general was down. A Star Tribune analysis of newly released police data shows that while homicides soared in 2019, reports of aggravated assaults, rapes and robberies decreased, contributing to a reduction in overall violent crime. However, property crime reports grew by nearly 12% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73030","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=73030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73031,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73030\/revisions\/73031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}