{"id":389,"date":"2005-11-25T13:51:28","date_gmt":"2005-11-25T13:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=389"},"modified":"2005-11-25T13:51:28","modified_gmt":"2005-11-25T13:51:28","slug":"111905","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"11\/19\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported violent crime is up in the city this year, led by more homicides.  And our section of Cleveland, recently, reflects some of this trend&#8230;  About a week ago, there was a street corner gun fatality a couple miles from us.  Then right up our street (also last week), there was an attempted rape of a 13-year-old girl in an alley.  (It was thwarted when someone in a bus stop called police.)  At the nearby Catholic Worker Storefront the other night, a drop-in place for the disadvantaged, they had to close because one &#8220;guest&#8221; threatened another.  We were there that night volunteering, and the atmosphere could best be described as &#8220;on edge&#8221; even before the incident&#8230;  Craig Tame, Cleveland&#8217;s chief of public health and safety was quoted in the Plain Dealer article on crime:  &#8220;Economic conditions, drugs and demographics all affect the patterns of crime&#8230;&#8221;  I am just working on an update for our position paper on crime, and I agree with Mr. Tame.  That is, if we <em>really<\/em> want to curb crime, we have to impact poverty, drug addiction, racial tension&#8230;  Law enforcement is just one part of it.  <strong>Note:<\/strong>  When asked about crime during an interview with the Worthington (MN) Globe News several years ago, I said I wanted to see: &#8220;less.&#8221;  Is that insightful, or what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported violent crime is up in the city this year, led by more homicides. And our section of Cleveland, recently, reflects some of this trend&#8230; About a week ago, there was a street corner gun fatality <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=389\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}