{"id":10326,"date":"2014-02-04T13:57:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T13:55:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T13:55:30","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10326","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Balko: Scenes from a militarized America: Iowa family &#8216;terrorized&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Balko: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/opinions\/wp\/2014\/02\/04\/scenes-from-a-militarized-america-iowa-family-terrorized\/\">Scenes from a militarized America: Iowa family &#8216;terrorized&#8217;<\/a> by Radley Balko: <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When critics (like me) warn about the dangers of police militarization, this is what we\u2019re talking about. You\u2019ll see the raid team, dressed in battle-dress uniforms, helmets and face-covering balaclava hoods take down the family\u2019s door with a battering ram. You\u2019ll see them storm the home with ballistics shields, guns at the ready. More troubling still, you\u2019ll see not one but two officers attempt to prevent the family from having an independent record of the raid, one by destroying a surveillance camera, another by blocking another camera\u2019s lens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10326\">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-10326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}