{"id":87058,"date":"2024-02-29T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87058"},"modified":"2024-02-28T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:19:00","slug":"this-is-what-security-crackdown-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87058","title":{"rendered":"This Is What &#8220;Security Crackdown&#8221; Looks LIke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Metro Transit posted a &#8220;code of conduct&#8221; a few weeks ago, to much derision.  &#8220;All window dressing and lip service&#8221;, the wags said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So Metro Transit added their interveners.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looks like we still got lip service and window dressing.  Perhaps we call it &#8220;lip dressing&#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\">Posted Monday evening (on FB). Super effective &quot;security&quot; on Metro Transit.<br><br>Minneapolis<br>Nasty Cat Blanket <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1nyD72Cuyi\">pic.twitter.com\/1nyD72Cuyi<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CrimeWatchMpls (@CrimeWatchMpls) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CrimeWatchMpls\/status\/1762654829397123125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So &#8211; not only is the collapse of social mores being <em>encouraged <\/em>by the aggressive lack of consequences, but we get to transfer tax dollars to more bureaucrats and their employees while we do it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I call that adding insult to insult to insult to injury to injury .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro Transit posted a &#8220;code of conduct&#8221; a few weeks ago, to much derision. &#8220;All window dressing and lip service&#8221;, the wags said. So Metro Transit added their interveners. Looks like we still got lip service and window dressing. Perhaps we call it &#8220;lip dressing&#8221;: So &#8211; not only is the collapse of social mores [&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-87058","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\/87058","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=87058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87059,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87058\/revisions\/87059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}