{"id":10153,"date":"2014-01-06T06:37:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T06:34:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T06:34:16","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10153","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: The Commish, the 2nd Time Around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/05\/opinion\/sunday\/dowd-the-commish-the-2nd-time-around.html?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">The Commish, the 2nd Time Around<\/a> by Maureen Dowd, about the new NYPD Commissioner and stop and frisk. I avoid most opinion pieces, but this is interesting about the attitudes of the NYPD in the post-&#8220;stop-and-frisk&#8221; world and the new Mayor. From page 2:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But he believes he can resolve the problems with stop-and-frisk and shaky morale. \u201cI didn\u2019t come back to New York to fail,\u201d he said flatly, dapper as ever in a Herm\u00e8s tie with elephants and a blue Rolex watch his wife gave him.<\/p>\n<p>Bratton said he wants to bring in a language expert, as he did back in 1994, to train police on the best ways to use language to \u201ccalm down incidents\u201d by being respectful rather than ratchet them up by being confrontational.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that you have to use stop-and-frisk \u201cwith skill,\u201d he said: \u201cWe have an expression in policing that it\u2019s not the use of force that gets cops in trouble, it\u2019s the use of language.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10153\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}