{"id":95682,"date":"2016-05-11T12:12:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T20:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95682"},"modified":"2016-05-11T12:12:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T20:12:55","slug":"the-ferguson-effect-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95682","title":{"rendered":"The Ferguson Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/05\/murder-spike-cities-fbi-james-comey-223082\">Politico<\/a>: FBI Director James Comey is again sounding the alarm about a surge in murders in several American cities and is publicly complaining that the problem isn&#8217;t getting much national media attention because the victims are minorities who live in particular neighborhoods.<br \/>\n&#8220;I was very worried about it last fall and I am in many ways more worried,&#8221; Comey told reporters during a question-and-answer session at FBI headquarters Wednesday. &#8220;The numbers are not only going up, they&#8217;re continuing to go up faster than they were going up last year. And I worry very much it&#8217;s a problem that most of America can drive around&#8230;.I don&#8217;t know what the answer is, but, holy cow, do we have a problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico: FBI Director James Comey is again sounding the alarm about a surge in murders in several American cities and is publicly complaining that the problem isn&#8217;t getting much national media attention because the victims are minorities who live in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95682\">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-95682","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\/95682","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=95682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95683,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95682\/revisions\/95683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}