{"id":86076,"date":"2023-09-19T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86076"},"modified":"2023-09-19T10:14:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T15:14:19","slug":"open-letter-to-minnetonka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86076","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To Minnetonka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To: Minnetonkoids Concerned about Crime
From: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous Peasant
Re: The Bed You Made<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concerned CItizens of Minnetonka<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I get it. Nobody likes to be told “I told you so”. And scolding people for dumb decisions puts them on the defensive. Nobody likes having the consequences of their agency questioned and mocked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I’ll try not to, and simply say that there’s a learning moment going on, if you are ready to do the learning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of you might just be figuring it out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The local TV stations sent cameras to the meeting to capture the emotional reaction of white suburban Minnetonka residents to a crime that\u2019s happened to black Minneapolis residents hundreds of times this year. As our recent report<\/a> showed, black Minnesotans in 2021 were 9.5 times more likely than white Minnesotans to be victims of serious crime (murder, aggravated assault, robbery, burglary, and rape).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DFL-led legislature did create a new crime category for carjacking this year but stopped short of assigning any penalty to the crime, leaving that to the Sentencing Guidelines Commission, appointed by DFL Gov. Tim Walz. Thankfully, American Experiment supporters flooded the commission<\/a> with emails demanding carjacking receive a felony-level sentence. Without that effort, the crime of carjacking would have been treated like the existing robbery offense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 While I sympathize for the Minnetonka citizens who took to the microphone last night to express their outrage at the situation and call for strong accountability, it needs to be said: they voted overwhelmingly for the people who caused this lawlessness and continue to allow it on a daily basis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Of course, if you don’t see the connection between your votes and what’s happening in your city, then you are, in fact, choosing decline, blight, decay and disorder. They follow. The relationship is causal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is all. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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