{"id":30718,"date":"2022-05-16T14:16:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T14:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/in-many-big-cities-you-can-have-peace-or-you-can-have-weak-gangs#id31822"},"modified":"2022-05-16T14:16:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T14:16:27","slug":"in-many-big-cities-you-can-have-peace-or-you-can-have-weak-gangs-but-you-cant-easily-get-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/in-many-big-cities-you-can-have-peace-or-you-can-have-weak-gangs-but-you-cant-easily-get-both\/","title":{"rendered":"In many big cities, you can have peace or you can have weak gangs, \u201cbut you can\u2019t easily get both.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Nobody collects data on gang strength or drug profits. No one tracks when gangs provide local security, or asks citizens whether they find the gangs as legitimate as the state. As a result, too many make the terrible trade-off ignorant of the consequences.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisblattman.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/11\/the-terrible-trade-off-why-less-violent-cities-often-means-more-powerful-and-organized-crime\/\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; Chris Blattman<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/in-many-big-cities-you-can-have-peace-or-you-can-have-weak-gangs\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Nobody collects data on gang strength or drug profits. No one tracks when gangs provide local security, or asks citizens whether they find the gangs as legitimate as the state. As a result, too many make the terrible trad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30719,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30718\/revisions\/30719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}