{"id":83424,"date":"2022-09-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83424"},"modified":"2022-09-20T09:19:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T14:19:53","slug":"one-definition-of-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83424","title":{"rendered":"One Definition Of Insanity&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;is &#8220;doing the same thing, over and over and over, and expecting a different result&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apropos nothing:<\/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\">Hennepin County is doling out $10 million as part of an urgent new strategy aimed at preventing carjackings, assaults and shootings during a nearly historic stretch of violent crime. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r0tzWXHiPG\">https:\/\/t.co\/r0tzWXHiPG<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Minnesota Star Tribune (@StarTribune) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarTribune\/status\/1572027773954031616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tax money will be shifted from taxpayers to non-profits that are, themselves, run and staffed by junior members of the city&#8217;s DFL political class.  They&#8217;ll do studies, write reports, have events, and mostly cash checks, and crime will rise and (maybe) fall on its own rhythm (or, like Detroit and Newark and Baltimore and Saint Louis, not fall at all, ever) &#8211; but the DFL will be able to claim with a straight-ish face that they are &#8220;Dooooooing Something&#8221; about crime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lather.  Rinse.  Repeat. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is &#8220;doing the same thing, over and over and over, and expecting a different result&#8221;. Apropos nothing: Tax money will be shifted from taxpayers to non-profits that are, themselves, run and staffed by junior members of the city&#8217;s DFL political class. They&#8217;ll do studies, write reports, have events, and mostly cash checks, and crime will [&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-83424","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\/83424","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=83424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83425,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83424\/revisions\/83425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}