{"id":92259,"date":"2016-04-01T16:25:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T00:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=92259"},"modified":"2016-04-01T16:25:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T00:25:50","slug":"crimes-jumps-in-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=92259","title":{"rendered":"Crimes Jumps In CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/andrew-sullivan-to-return\/#comment-1375340\">Comment<\/a>: \u201cIt\u2019s all so complex\u201d is the go-to excuse for not noticing the obvious.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/crime-710203-county-police.html\">OC Register<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrime rose 23 percent in Orange County last year \u2013 the greatest single-year jump in at least a decade \u2013 with the steepest increases coming in stolen vehicles, aggravated assaults, theft and burglaries, according to law enforcement records compiled by The Orange County Register.<br \/>\n\u2026<br \/>\nMany Orange County police officials blame the surge on a state law they say makes it difficult to keep drug addicts and other low-level offenders locked up, leaving them on the streets to repeat the same crimes and steal to feed their addictions.<\/p>\n<p>Criminologists say that link is speculative, at best, and has not been supported by research of the complex variables that may affect crime rates. They also warn against faulting a major criminal justice initiative before its effects have been fully evaluated.<\/p>\n<p>But even as they urge restraint in drawing conclusions about the causes, academics concede something is driving up crime throughout California, which saw a 13 percent increase in property crime and a 9 percent rise in violent crime in the first half of last year, according to FBI data.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment: \u201cIt\u2019s all so complex\u201d is the go-to excuse for not noticing the obvious. OC Register: \u201cCrime rose 23 percent in Orange County last year \u2013 the greatest single-year jump in at least a decade \u2013 with the steepest increases &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=92259\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92260,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92259\/revisions\/92260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}