{"id":13889,"date":"2014-10-25T14:15:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T19:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13889"},"modified":"2014-10-25T14:15:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T19:15:53","slug":"politico-magazine-the-police-are-still-out-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13889","title":{"rendered":"Politico: Magazine: The police are still out of control by Frank Serpico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politico: Magazine: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2014\/10\/the-police-are-still-out-of-control-112160.html?hp=r1#.VEv2R4JAI58\">The police are still out of control<\/a> by Frank Serpico:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Forty-odd years on, my story probably seems like ancient history to most people, layered over with Hollywood legend. For me it&#8217;s not, since at the age of 78 I&#8217;m still deaf in one ear and I walk with a limp and I carry fragments of the bullet near my brain. I am also, all these years later, still persona non grata in the NYPD. Never mind that, thanks to Sidney Lumet&#8217;s direction and Al Pacino&#8217;s brilliant acting, &#8220;Serpico&#8221; ranks No. 40 on the American Film Institute&#8217;s list of all-time movie heroes, or that as I travel around the country and the world, police officers often tell me they were inspired to join the force after seeing the movie at an early age.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico: Magazine: The police are still out of control by Frank Serpico: Forty-odd years on, my story probably seems like ancient history to most people, layered over with Hollywood legend. For me it&#8217;s not, since at the age of 78 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13889\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13889","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=13889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13891,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13889\/revisions\/13891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}