{"id":80028,"date":"2021-11-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80028"},"modified":"2021-11-13T07:38:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T13:38:36","slug":"swallowed-by-the-cracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80028","title":{"rendered":"Swallowed By The Cracks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This story came out last week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hit-And-Run Suspect Fatally Shot Man Who Tried To Stop Him; Carjacking Escape Interrupted By Community Members <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZfInNUoJWA\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZfInNUoJWA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BwujimhkOe\">pic.twitter.com\/BwujimhkOe<\/a><\/p>&mdash; WCCO | CBS News Minnesota (@WCCO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCCO\/status\/1459310193662210053?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On one hand, a round of applause for the locals who grabbed the guy.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The good news:  People are getting sick of criminals.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bad news:  Perhaps they&#8217;re also getting sick of a system that coddles criminals, and are ready to start doing order (if not justice, in the sense we&#8217;ve come to expect) themselves.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there&#8217;s more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of when this post was written (Saturday morning), Minnesota had 84 homicides &#8211; two more than for all of 2020.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s put that in context.   In 2016, there were 82 unjustified homicides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In the entire state of Minnesota<\/em>.   Minneapolis had 30-. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thjis is what civic collapse looks like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story came out last week. On one hand, a round of applause for the locals who grabbed the guy. The good news: People are getting sick of criminals. The bad news: Perhaps they&#8217;re also getting sick of a system that coddles criminals, and are ready to start doing order (if not justice, in the [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80028","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=80028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80029,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80028\/revisions\/80029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}