{"id":80740,"date":"2022-01-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80740"},"modified":"2022-01-25T07:22:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T13:22:47","slug":"i-wanna-see-some-history-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80740","title":{"rendered":"I Wanna See Some History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The DFL is waking up to the fact that people don&#8217;t like crime, and they don&#8217;t see law and order as a &#8220;privilege&#8221;. <\/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\">2020:  Empty jails, play passive-aggressive patty-cake with the Guard during the riots. <br><br>2021:  Push defunding, revive &quot;catch and release&quot;. <br><br>2022:  Blame GOP for *their* mess, propose transfer of more tax $$ to the non-profit industrial complex. <br><br>This is today&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MNDFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MNDFL<\/a>.<\/p>&mdash; Mitch &quot;The Wa\u0142\u0119sa Project&quot; Berg \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf4\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7 (@mitchpberg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mitchpberg\/status\/1485722013167673350?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was going to write out the last couple years of history, but the Twitter embed seems to have added that for me.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DFL policies pretty much negate the DFL&#8217;s proposals:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can boil these &#8220;proposals&#8221; down to &#8220;trying to fix the damage they&#8217;ve wrought into a couple of categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Transferring more taxpayer money to the state&#8217;s political class and the non-profit\/industrial complex. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Innovation&#8221; and &#8220;Local Community Policing&#8221;  grants might be well described as &#8220;greasing the right palms&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Paying to undo the DFL&#8217;s damage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Body cameras? Training investigators?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We <em>had <\/em>investigators.   They quit when the county attorneys stopped prosecuting repeat criminals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Trying to blame Republicans<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which, as long as the DFL runs both cities, is really what it&#8217;s all about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I shudder to imagine who&#8217;s convinced by this.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DFL is waking up to the fact that people don&#8217;t like crime, and they don&#8217;t see law and order as a &#8220;privilege&#8221;. I was going to write out the last couple years of history, but the Twitter embed seems to have added that for me. DFL policies pretty much negate the DFL&#8217;s proposals: You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minneapolis","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80740","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=80740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80741,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80740\/revisions\/80741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}