{"id":17983,"date":"2015-07-09T12:17:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T17:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17983"},"modified":"2015-07-09T12:17:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T17:17:48","slug":"wapo-radley-balkos-the-watch-blog-documents-show-excessive-use-of-massachusetts-swat-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17983","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Radley Balko&#8217;s &#8216;The Watch&#8217; Blog: Documents show excessive use of Massachusetts SWAT teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Radley Balko&#8217;s &#8216;The Watch&#8217; Blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2015\/07\/08\/documents-show-execessive-use-of-massachusetts-swat-teams\/\">Documents show excessive use of Massachusetts SWAT teams<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SWAT teams were once used only in emergency situations, when lives were in immediate danger. That is, they were primarily used to protect civilians. Today, they\u2019re primarily used to protect police officers, often at the expense of the safety and civil liberties of civilians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Radley Balko&#8217;s &#8216;The Watch&#8217; Blog: Documents show excessive use of Massachusetts SWAT teams: SWAT teams were once used only in emergency situations, when lives were in immediate danger. That is, they were primarily used to protect civilians. Today, they\u2019re &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17983\">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-17983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17983","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=17983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17984,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17983\/revisions\/17984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}