{"id":64714,"date":"2017-10-05T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64714"},"modified":"2017-10-05T06:33:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T11:33:00","slug":"have-some-more-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64714","title":{"rendered":"Have Some More Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Governor\u2019s law enforcement committee asks the age-old question: Who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2017\/09\/29\/mark-daytons-council-on-police-minority-community-relations-gives-recommendations\/\">watches the watchers<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>The call for a special prosecutor sends up red flags for me.\u00a0 Removing police prosecutions from local control adds a layer of insulation shields the special prosecutor from local oversight.\u00a0 We already have a system of locally elected County Attorneys that has withstood the test of time.\u00a0 Hennepin and Ramsey counties are politically deep blue so anybody elected County Attorney basically will be elected by Democrats, the party of the people, defenders of the downtrodden.\u00a0 If local prosecutors are racist, it\u2019s because the Democrats who elected them are racist in which case your problem is not with the local prosecutors, it\u2019s with the DFL party and its voters. \u00a0Appoint more apparatchiks won\u2019t change the racist attitudes of the appointers.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But it\u00a0<em>will\u00a0<\/em>add another office full of bureaucrats with AFSCME and MAPE memberships donating dues to the DFL.<\/p>\n<p>If the DFL could find a way to sell the pelts of police abuse victims for political donations, they&#8217;d do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Governor\u2019s law enforcement committee asks the age-old question: Who watches the watchers? The call for a special prosecutor sends up red flags for me.\u00a0 Removing police prosecutions from local control adds a layer of insulation shields the special prosecutor from local oversight.\u00a0 We already have a system of locally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,286],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-police-powers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64715,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64714\/revisions\/64715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}