{"id":84192,"date":"2023-01-06T07:23:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T13:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84192"},"modified":"2024-06-03T12:43:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T17:43:12","slug":"open-letter-to-hennco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84192","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To HennCo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To:  Hennepin County<br>From:  Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant<br>Re:  You&#8217;re Screwed Blue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear HennCo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe I missed this; your new co-chief public defender (FKA &#8220;County Prosecutor&#8221;) was sworn in this past week..  As befits an unserious person in an unserious city at an unserious time, she was sworn in on a comic book:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The new attorney of Hennepin County, Mary Moriarty, took her oath of office Tuesday with her hand placed on a copy of a graphic novel about the late congressman John Lewis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eShekell\/status\/1610466186831237120\" target=\"_blank\">Photos<\/a>&nbsp;from the swearing-in ceremony show Moriarty with her hand on a copy of \u201cMarch,\u201d which she described as a \u201cgraphic novel trilogy about Congress Member John Lewis and his courageous fight for voting rights.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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\">Andrew Aydin co-authored \u201cMarch,\u201d a graphic novel trilogy about Congress Member John Lewis and his courageous fight for voting rights. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewaydin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@andrewaydin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VqpabebR38\">https:\/\/t.co\/VqpabebR38<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mary Moriarty (@MaryMoriarty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaryMoriarty\/status\/1610650569076506625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A comic book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I may start rooting for the criminals at this rate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, yeah &#8211; no surprises here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cResearch and data show that non-restorative models of punishment do not prevent recidivism, do not repair families, and cause harm to a community. Incarceration, sometimes a year or more after a crime is committed, disconnects the punishment from the impact of a crime on a victim,\u201d she&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryforhennepin.com\/vision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a>&nbsp;on her campaign website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIncarceration disconnects the person who committed violence from their community and makes reintegration extremely difficult,\u201d the website adds. \u201cMary\u2019s office will seek to provide an alternative to traditional prosecution through restorative justice as an option for victims.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryforhennepin.com\/vision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">opposes<\/a>&nbsp;the cash bail system, which is \u201cnot helping to make our community safer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>So strap in, HennCo.  It&#8217;s gonna get worse before it gets better. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Hennepin CountyFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: You&#8217;re Screwed Blue Dear HennCo I can&#8217;t believe I missed this; your new co-chief public defender (FKA &#8220;County Prosecutor&#8221;) was sworn in this past week.. As befits an unserious person in an unserious city at an unserious time, she was sworn in on a comic book: The new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,320,18],"tags":[465],"class_list":["post-84192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-mndfl","category-pc","tag-mary-moriarty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84192","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=84192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84194,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84192\/revisions\/84194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}