{"id":18391,"date":"2015-08-08T17:06:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T22:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18391"},"modified":"2015-08-08T17:06:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T22:06:40","slug":"tpm-how-new-york-ended-up-with-1-2-million-open-arrest-warrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18391","title":{"rendered":"TPM: How New York Ended Up With 1.2 Million Open Arrest Warrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TPM: <a href=\"TPM: How New York Ended Up With 1.2 Million Open Arrest Warrants\">How New York Ended Up With 1.2 Million Open Arrest Warrant<\/a>s by Allegra Kirkland:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Growing up in a \u201cdysfunctional family\u201d in Gainesville, Florida, with an alcoholic uncle, a drug-addicted mother, and a wheelchair-bound grandmother, Howard dreamed of moving to New York and making it in the film industry. After a few unsatisfying years at Gainesville\u2019s Santa Fe Community College, he dropped out and moved to a town in New Jersey, right across the Hudson River from Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>Soon enough, Howard, a tall African-American man with a deep voice and hazel eyes, began booking modeling and acting gigs and working as a waiter at Le Pain Quotidian to keep a steady income coming in. He quickly moved up the ranks, and now, at 30, owns his own production company, lives alone in a two-bedroom apartment, and has an eleven-month old daughter, Lian, whom he dotes upon. From his perspective, he\u2019d beaten the odds. He\u2019d left Florida and built the life he wanted.<\/p>\n<p>But one afternoon this May, Howard found himself sitting behind bars at the NYPD\u2019s 5th precinct in Chinatown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TPM: How New York Ended Up With 1.2 Million Open Arrest Warrants by Allegra Kirkland:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18391","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=18391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18392,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18391\/revisions\/18392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}