{"id":75340,"date":"2020-09-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75340"},"modified":"2020-09-16T10:41:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T15:41:43","slug":"this-is-what-dismantlement-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75340","title":{"rendered":"This Is What Dismantlement Looks Like"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oddly enough, when you work for a boss that actively disparages, nay, defames the work you do, loudly, constantly and in public, employees are going to react. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The numbers for the Minneapolis Police Department are well-nigh catastrophic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/EChalouxKSTP\/status\/1305850871918534658\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly 40% attrition in four months.   And I suspect the recruit stream has not only dwindled to a trickle, but is heavily made up of people you don&#8217;t want wearing badges and carrying guns.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Historically?  Minneapolis went through similar (albeit not nearly so drastic) problems in the nineties, and before that in the seventies &#8211; and the city paid the price in terms of officer quality both times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This could well make both of those troughs look like the good times. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oddly enough, when you work for a boss that actively disparages, nay, defames the work you do, loudly, constantly and in public, employees are going to react. The numbers for the Minneapolis Police Department are well-nigh catastrophic: Nearly 40% attrition in four months. And I suspect the recruit stream has not only dwindled to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minneapolis","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75340","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=75340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75341,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75340\/revisions\/75341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}