{"id":7122,"date":"2015-05-30T16:06:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T16:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/05\/30\/the-ferguson-effect\/"},"modified":"2015-05-30T16:06:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T16:06:56","slug":"the-ferguson-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/05\/30\/the-ferguson-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘Ferguson’ Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Turkish proverb has it that "the fish stinks from the head."  And indeed it does.  From Obama on down, the vilification of law enforcement has lead to a nation-wide spike in violent crime.  But while liberals caused the Ferguson effect<\/a>, they won't suffer from it.  Urban blacks will.   Having seen how Officer Darren Wilson's career was destroyed, cops can be expected to hang back and avoid pro-active interventions.  I predict a long, hot, violent summer.  On the upside, Dunkin' Donuts will do better business and more cats will be rescued from trees.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of us are old enough to remember the Watts riots from the summer of 1965 in Los Angeles, 50 years ago.  At the time a joke made the rounds.  "How much power would it take to destroy Los Angeles?"<\/span><\/p>\n

Five or six Watts.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A Turkish proverb has it that "the fish stinks from the head."  And indeed it does.  From Obama on down, the vilification of law enforcement has lead to a nation-wide spike in violent crime.  But while liberals caused the Ferguson effect, they won't suffer from it.  Urban blacks will.   Having seen how Officer Darren … Continue reading “The ‘Ferguson’ Effect”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}