{"id":7333,"date":"2009-12-21T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7333"},"modified":"2009-12-20T07:43:50","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T12:43:50","slug":"problem-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7333","title":{"rendered":"Problem Solved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via the print only edition of yesterday&#8217;s Strib;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/79612327.html?elr=KArksUUUycaEacyU\">counties, exhibiting government&#8217;s typical foresight<\/a>, overbuilt on jails just as the crime boom peaked and fell:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the past five years, Minnesota counties spent tens of millions of dollars to add beds to their jail capacity.<\/p>\n<p>But there are now 18,000 fewer arrests than there were at the start of the building boom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Pragmatic responds:\u00a0 Homelessness problem solved!<\/p>\n<p>(Er &#8211; hey!\u00a0 What happened to the homeless problem?\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t read a single story about the homeless since last January!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the print only edition of yesterday&#8217;s Strib;\u00a0 counties, exhibiting government&#8217;s typical foresight, overbuilt on jails just as the crime boom peaked and fell: In the past five years, Minnesota counties spent tens of millions of dollars to add beds to their jail capacity. But there are now 18,000 fewer arrests than there were at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333","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=7333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7335,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333\/revisions\/7335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}