{"id":16717,"date":"2020-07-21T22:44:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T03:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=16717"},"modified":"2020-07-21T18:58:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T23:58:10","slug":"shootings-other-crimes-spike-in-the-poorest-neighborhoods-when-cops-pull-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/07\/21\/shootings-other-crimes-spike-in-the-poorest-neighborhoods-when-cops-pull-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Shootings, Other Crimes Spike in the Poorest Neighborhoods When Cops Pull Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-43192\" title=\"The White House\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/whitehouse-logo-200x136.jpg\" alt=\"The White House\" width=\"200\" height=\"136\"><strong>Washington, D.C.<\/strong> &#8211; \u201cIf there\u2019s one lesson from the unrest and anti-police agitation in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, it\u2019s that poor minorities living in distressed neighborhoods pay the highest price\u2014in fear and in blood\u2014when the cops retreat and the worst elements feel emboldened,\u201d Rich Lowry writes in National Review.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u201cThe spikes in shootings in cities around the country haven\u2019t taken place in high-end neighborhoods . . . No, they blight the most marginal neighborhoods and make everyday life a hazard for people who have no option but to live in a tough place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/West-Wing.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-478008\" title=\"The White House - West Wing. (Official White House Photo)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/West-Wing-480x240.jpg\" alt=\"The White House - West Wing. (Official White House Photo)\" width=\"480\" height=\"240\"><\/a><!--more-->&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whitehouse.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4da4828d48b4efa4fc1138955&amp;id=884ee07588&amp;e=6b36942091\" >Click here to read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA simple, additional runway at the Taos, New Mexico, airport took more than 20 years to complete because of the permitting and approval process . . . The future of our country\u2019s economy depends, in no small part, upon federal departments and agencies taking a hard look at their regulatory agendas,\u201d Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao writes in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whitehouse.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4da4828d48b4efa4fc1138955&amp;id=8ccdc0837b&amp;e=6b36942091\" >The Detroit News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnarchists and rioters have wreaked havoc on Portland, Ore., for nearly two months. Democrats have excused and emboldened them, and they\u2019re now claiming the real problem is that federal law enforcement has intervened to restore order . . . If radicals feel emboldened, that\u2019s because Portland has long allowed political violence to occur with impunity,\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whitehouse.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4da4828d48b4efa4fc1138955&amp;id=b0095fba45&amp;e=6b36942091\" >The Wall Street Journal<\/a> editorial board writes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter many decades of a trade policy dominated by geopolitics and the blind pursuit of efficiency, the United States now has a new worker-focused trade policy . . . Some bitter-enders will continue to argue that we should just let the jobs go and then attempt to glue the pieces of society back together again. Fortunately, the country as a whole has moved on and will be stronger for it,\u201d U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer writes in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whitehouse.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4da4828d48b4efa4fc1138955&amp;id=4be8165504&amp;e=6b36942091\" >Foreign Affairs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. &#8211; \u201cIf there\u2019s one lesson from the unrest and anti-police agitation in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, it\u2019s that poor minorities living in distressed neighborhoods pay the highest price\u2014in fear and in blood\u2014when the cops retreat and the worst elements feel emboldened,\u201d Rich Lowry writes in National Review. &nbsp; \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[11912,13062,3324,13065,10038,12546,3338],"class_list":["post-16717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-crime","tag-george-floyd","tag-portland-or","tag-riots","tag-shooting","tag-trade","tag-washington-d-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16718,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16717\/revisions\/16718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}