{"id":85343,"date":"2023-06-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85343"},"modified":"2023-06-12T08:53:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T13:53:40","slug":"a-county-of-cowards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85343","title":{"rendered":"A County Of Cowards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 1993, when Jeff Snyder published his classic monograph <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalaffairs.com\/public_interest\/detail\/a-nation-of-cowards\">A Nation of Cowards<\/a><\/em>, one of the key takeaways was that until the people had the will (to say nothing of the means) to resist the tyranny of street crime, they were getting what they deserved.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was after a few decades of New Yorkers being told&#8230;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Carry an extra wallet to give to the muggers.  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But make sure the spare wallet doesn&#8217;t have <em>too <\/em>little money, or the mugger may get angry and kiill you anyway<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Leave your car window open so the thieves don&#8217;t just smash them to get what they want.  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually, even New Yorkers had enough, and elected the law-and-order Giuliani as mayor, and supported his crackdown on petty crime.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These days, the Minneapolis Police Department is telling us this:<\/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=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bf89ODuR70\">pic.twitter.com\/Bf89ODuR70<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Firesign Theater (@EliasonRich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EliasonRich\/status\/1666236798618533891?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So the question now becomes &#8211; are 2020s Minneapolitan more bovinely acquiescent than 1970s New Yorkers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1993, when Jeff Snyder published his classic monograph A Nation of Cowards, one of the key takeaways was that until the people had the will (to say nothing of the means) to resist the tyranny of street crime, they were getting what they deserved. This was after a few decades of New Yorkers being [&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-85343","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\/85343","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=85343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85345,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85343\/revisions\/85345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}