{"id":87908,"date":"2024-07-16T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87908"},"modified":"2024-07-16T08:34:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T13:34:00","slug":"focus-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87908","title":{"rendered":"Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Apologists for the government of the City of Minneapolis have pivoted to talking about crime dropping, we are told, from the three year average.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a reason for that, naturally:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the city crime dashboard as of today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.minneapolismn.gov\/government\/government-data\/datasource\/crime-dashboard\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"965\" height=\"711\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-16-at-8.29.18-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87909\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-16-at-8.29.18-AM.png 965w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-16-at-8.29.18-AM-300x221.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-16-at-8.29.18-AM-768x566.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-16-at-8.29.18-AM-407x300.png 407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 965px) 100vw, 965px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The three year average is indeed high &#8211; it includes the tail end of the Walz\/Covid crime wave of 2021.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But over the past year, to date?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Murder is up. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Robbery is up &#8211; sharply. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ll note that Minneapolis is now at 32 non-negligent homicides for the year so far. That&#8217;s up from 30 homicides in 2016.  <em>For the whole year<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a shame the city doesn&#8217;t include a ten-year average space.   It&#8217;d be interesting to see how the DSA\/DFL coalition that runs the city would spin that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologists for the government of the City of Minneapolis have pivoted to talking about crime dropping, we are told, from the three year average. There&#8217;s a reason for that, naturally: Here&#8217;s the city crime dashboard as of today: The three year average is indeed high &#8211; it includes the tail end of the Walz\/Covid crime [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87908","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=87908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87910,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87908\/revisions\/87910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}