They’d like that presence to act fairly, to treat the locals with the respect due taxpayers in a free society, and to not get treated like criminals until proven otherwise – but they want law and order. Becuase while they may or may not put it in as many words, they understand something I razz libertarians for not <\/em>getting; without some sense of order, prosperity is impossible; without prosperity, liberty is academic. (And, of course, order without liberty is onerous and tyrannical; that part, they get). <\/p>\n\n\n\n With that in mind, here are the result from Tuesday on the Defund the Police initiative:<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m not in the least surprised of the intensity of support in the tony, boho Southeast (perversely, the darkest-green blob on the Northeast of the map), or hipster-plagued Northeast (again, perversely, the north central part of the map, and least of all Longfellow and the near South Side and the Wedge (the green splotches around the middle of the city); this is the home of the non-profiteers, the recent college grads and the like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m a little shocked that the far Southwest, and the western border, were such strong “no” votes, though. Ward 11 – along the south dentral border – ejected Councilman Schroeder over this initiative. Democrats with money apparently believe they have something to lose after all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Not surprising in the least? The North Side (actually the Northwest qjuadrant of the map) where the actual crime is curbstomped <\/em>the initiative, taking down Philippe Cunningham (the far northwest part of the city) and almost Jeremiah Ellison in the process (just south of him). <\/p>\n\n\n\n When Don Samuels came out sounding like a Montana state legislator on the law-and-order subjects, I knew something was up. I had no idea it’d be this decisive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I more or less figured that the “Defund” initiative in Minneapolis was going to be a white progressive thing (along with “people of color” who work in the non-profit\/industrial complex). It’s been a long-time narrative-busting truism that people who actually live in crime-ridden neighborhoods want more police presence. They’d like that presence to act fairly, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79915","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=79915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79917,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79915\/revisions\/79917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/img_2296.jpg\")
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