{"id":4410,"date":"2026-01-09T11:29:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4410"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:29:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:29:31","slug":"reducing-violence-producing-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4410","title":{"rendered":"Reducing Violence, Producing Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/JPA530.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"406\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/JPA530.jpg\" alt=\"Political Cartoon: Reducing Violence, Producing Violence\" class=\"wp-image-4411\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/JPA530.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/JPA530-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As I write this, it has only been a day since an ICE agent in Minneapolis shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three. And already it feels like the news cycle has moved past the stunningly brutal summary execution for what amounted to a traffic violation and has moved on to speculation on how this might affect the mid-terms. By the time this is shared Friday it may be off the radar \u2014 there is, after all, an excellent chance that a new violation of international law will have caught our attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;m stuck on sadness and bitterness for now and expect to remain there for a while. Sadness because of the loss of life. Not just Ms. Good but for all the people who have suffered (and will suffer) because a wannabe dictator needs to keep his base frothing with fear and anger. Bitterness because it&#8217;s so unnecessary. As&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganpublic.org\/public-safety\/2026-01-07\/lowest-homicides-in-30-years-detroit-reports-historic-drop-in-violent-crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Detroit<\/a>&nbsp;and other cities and towns have proved, real improvements in public safety don&#8217;t come from armed thugs set loose upon the citizenry. Real improvements come from coordinated community efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, it has only been a day since an ICE agent in Minneapolis shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three. And already it feels like the news cycle has moved past the stunningly brutal summary execution for what amounted to a traffic violation and has moved on to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4412,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions\/4412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}