{"id":73310,"date":"2020-02-18T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73310"},"modified":"2020-11-09T07:26:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T13:26:03","slug":"if-its-tuesday-minneapolis-must-be-an-urban-utopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73310","title":{"rendered":"If Its Tuesday, Minneapolis Must Be An Urban Utopia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\ufffc rumors that violent crime and homicide have spiked in Minneapolis and St. Paul in the last year are\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026 Well, pretty much a political football.\ufffc<\/p>\n

Yesterday, House Republicans started messaging on the imperative to clean up Minneapolis<\/a>:\ufffc<\/p>\n

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Outstate Republican legislators today unveiled a proposal to tackle urban crime, months after they first started planting political seeds about the hazards of Minnesota\u2019s cities.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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And Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey didn\u2019t seem thrilled with the presentation.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Mayor McDreamy responded with a bit of cheap theatrics, lavishly staged for the eager cameras of the Twin Cities TV stations, as was thoroughly predictable.\ufffc. I’m not going to plug his little tantrum here \u2013 read the link to article, in the “Minnesota Reformer”, which is to the 2020 is what the “Minnesota Monitor” was to the 2000s.\ufffc<\/p>\n

\ufffcThe “Reformer<\/em>” being a bought and paid for “progressive” propaganda site, I’m sure its audience let this next bit \u2013 which I will emphasize \u2013 slide without much thought. Kind of like to do their politics. To wit:<\/p>\n

GOP legislators \u2014 <\/span>not a single one of whom represent either St. Paul or Minneapolis<\/strong><\/span> \u2014 made clear long before the session started that they were prepared to leverage urban crime to gain support in the suburbs…<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So \u2013 if you don’t live in Minneapolis or St. Paul, you have no business talking about policy for either city.<\/p>\n

Naturally, that isn’t going to be applied to people from the metro area imposing land-use, mining and gun control policies on the rest of the state. That’s just crazy talk.<\/p>\n

When they left makes good on its goal of getting rid of the electoral college, they won’t even have to bother insulting people from outside the urban core.\ufffc<\/p>\n

…, despite the fact that violent crime in both cities has dropped since the early 1990s, in line with national and state trends. Reports of violent crimes reached a 28-year low in Minneapolis in 2018, and an all-time low in St. Paul in 2019,<\/span> <\/span><\/span>Minnesota Reformer previously reported<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So \u2013 when the subject is urban crime, the cities are safe Dash but when the subject is law abiding citizens with guns, then the streets are running red with blood?<\/p>\n

The problem, of course, is that the Democrat base can’t be bothered with , and most cases has never learned, the sort of critical thinking that would allow them to read this sort of twaddle and think “who do these people think we are? Idiots?”\ufffc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\ufffc rumors that violent crime and homicide have spiked in Minneapolis and St. Paul in the last year are\u2026 \u2026 Well, pretty much a political football.\ufffc Yesterday, House Republicans started messaging on the imperative to clean up Minneapolis:\ufffc Outstate Republican legislators today unveiled a proposal to tackle urban crime, months after they first started planting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minnesota-politics","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73310","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=73310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73311,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73310\/revisions\/73311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}