{"id":11747,"date":"2014-12-30T22:58:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T02:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=11747"},"modified":"2014-12-31T20:20:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T00:20:52","slug":"crime-in-the-big-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=11747","title":{"rendered":"Crime in the Big City"},"content":{"rendered":"

6 days of data<\/p>\n

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\n(source: Charlotte Observer)<\/p>\n

What – me worry?<\/p>\n

Remember that the primary purpose of government and newspapers is to scare you.<\/p>\n

Let’s have a look at homicide for the past 6 months – Charlotte’s population is about 800,000.
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Charlotte has become very racially segregated, largely encouraged by a gerrymandered “all black” 12th Congressional district. The area to the North of downtown and West of I-77 is almost entirely black. The area South of downtown and East of I77 is almost entirely white, with a couple pockets of Hispanics.<\/p>\n

The two homicide dots in the “white” part of town in the last 6 months – one was a 70 year old man shooting his 68 year old wife in a murder-suicide. The other was a 20 something man who shot his “crazy” father accidentally in the leg. Neither was shooting by a stranger.<\/p>\n

Facts are what they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

6 days of data (source: Charlotte Observer) What – me worry? Remember that the primary purpose of government and newspapers is to scare you. Let’s have a look at homicide for the past 6 months – Charlotte’s population is about … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collapse-of-america","category-north-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11747"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11753,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11747\/revisions\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}