{"id":83132,"date":"2022-08-18T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83132"},"modified":"2022-08-17T17:04:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T22:04:58","slug":"privilege-in-action-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83132","title":{"rendered":"Privilege In Action!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Crime in Minneapolis <a href=\"https:\/\/alphanews.org\/fully-automatic-gunfire-in-minneapolis-up-significantly-from-2021-police-data\/?fbclid=IwAR2bS4y5D59I1ppW8q-CCZO71NxdMO5Yl6J8pfqoQU5MGj9o6OZwyIhgGKU\">is apparently intensely racist<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>According to MPD data, 83% of the city\u2019s shooting victims this year have been black. And in 2021, one black shooting victim was identified for every 150 black residents, while one white shooting victim was identified for every 3,768 white residents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting at this point that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/quickfacts\/minneapoliscityminnesota\">the population of MInneapolis is 18.9% black. <\/a> The imbalance among victims works out to about at 25:1 ratio, per capita. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But wait &#8211; the imbalances aren&#8217;t done yet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A significant majority of homicides in Minneapolis, moreover, are committed by black suspects. In 2022, 89% of shooting suspects have been described as black (in cases where police obtain a suspect description from a witness).<\/p><p>As for age, two-thirds of Minneapolis\u2019 shooting victims are 30 years old or younger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>So &#8211; young black men are <em>extremelly <\/em>disproportionally the perps and the victims in Minneapolis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lesson is clear, Minneapolis.  Vote DFL harder  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crime in Minneapolis is apparently intensely racist: According to MPD data, 83% of the city\u2019s shooting victims this year have been black. And in 2021, one black shooting victim was identified for every 150 black residents, while one white shooting victim was identified for every 3,768 white residents. It&#8217;s worth noting at this point that [&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-83132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83132","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=83132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83133,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83132\/revisions\/83133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}