{"id":13035,"date":"2014-08-24T11:28:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T16:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13035"},"modified":"2014-08-24T11:28:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T16:28:17","slug":"nytimes-in-washington-second-thoughts-on-arming-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13035","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: In Washington, Second Thoughts on Arming Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/24\/us\/in-washington-second-thoughts-on-arming-police.html?ref=todayspaper&#038;_r=0\">In Washington, Second Thoughts on Arming Police<\/a> by Matt Apuzzo and Michael S. Schmidt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Jolted by images of protesters clashing with heavily armed police officers in Missouri, President Obama has ordered a comprehensive review of the government\u2019s decade-old strategy of outfitting local police departments with military-grade body armor, mine-resistant trucks, silencers and automatic rifles, senior officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The White House-led review will consider whether the government should continue providing such equipment and, if so, whether local authorities have sufficient training to use it appropriately, said senior administration and law enforcement officials. The government will also consider whether it is keeping a close enough watch on equipment inventories, and how the weapons and other gear are used.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: In Washington, Second Thoughts on Arming Police by Matt Apuzzo and Michael S. Schmidt: WASHINGTON \u2014 Jolted by images of protesters clashing with heavily armed police officers in Missouri, President Obama has ordered a comprehensive review of the government\u2019s &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13035\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13035","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13036,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13035\/revisions\/13036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}