{"id":75445,"date":"2020-09-29T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75445"},"modified":"2020-09-27T20:00:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T01:00:06","slug":"its-better-to-look-good-than-to-be-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75445","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Better To <i>Look<\/i> Good Than To <i>Be<\/i> Good"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>June &#8211; Minneapolis City Council President on CNN &#8211; expecting police to prevent crime comes from\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/06\/08\/minneapolis-city-council-president-lisa-bender-calling-police-privilege\/\" target=\"_blank\">a place of white privilege.<\/a><\/p><p>June, July, August &#8211; Minneapolis City Council to all Minneapolis Police Officers: You&#8217;re horrible people and we&#8217;re going to de-fund your entire department,<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/ny-minneapolis-disband-police-department-death-george-floyd-20200626-r6phjov25zaodiyo3um3v7q46u-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0to start from scratch and reinvent public safety<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p><p>September &#8211; Minneapolis City Council to Minneapolis Police Chief:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2020\/09\/15\/with-violent-crime-on-the-rise-in-mpls-city-council-asks-where-are-the-police\" target=\"_blank\">Crime is out of control and residents are terrified.<\/a>\u00a0 Why aren&#8217;t police officers doing a better job of preventing crime?<\/p><p>The Minneapolis Chief of Police is\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Medaria_Arradondo\" target=\"_blank\">Medaria Arrando<\/a>, a Black man.\u00a0 When the Council fires him, he&#8217;ll join the ranks of other Black police chiefs fired as scapegoats for White city council virtue-signaling gone wild including\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice\/2020\/09\/08\/910791494\/rochester-police-chief-laron-singletary-resigns\" target=\"_blank\">Le&#8217;Ron Singletary,<\/a>\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice\/2020\/09\/02\/908808713\/outgoing-seattle-police-chief-felt-destined-to-fail-after-cuts-and-public-backla\" target=\"_blank\">Carmen Best<\/a>, and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/nicholasreimann\/2020\/09\/08\/dallas-police-chief-resigns-after-controversy-around-george-floyd-protests\/#e2c9d5e5385a\" target=\"_blank\">U. Renee Hall<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p><p>But firing the Black police chief flies in the face of a study claiming to prove that police departments run by\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/504922-cities-with-black-police-chiefs-have-lower-instances-of-fatal\" target=\"_blank\">Black police chiefs have Fewer shootings<\/a>.<\/p><p>It&#8217;s almost as if Liberals don&#8217;t care about actual results, only about looking good to the media.<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Among &#8220;progressives&#8221;, participation trophies are good enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also mandatory. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June &#8211; Minneapolis City Council President on CNN &#8211; expecting police to prevent crime comes from\u00a0a place of white privilege. June, July, August &#8211; Minneapolis City Council to all Minneapolis Police Officers: You&#8217;re horrible people and we&#8217;re going to de-fund your entire department,\u00a0to start from scratch and reinvent public safety.\u00a0 September &#8211; Minneapolis City Council [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75445","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=75445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75450,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75445\/revisions\/75450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}