{"id":11818,"date":"2014-06-02T02:59:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T07:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11818"},"modified":"2014-06-01T14:02:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T19:02:04","slug":"huffpo-prosecutor-tells-black-congressmembers-the-war-on-drugs-isnt-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11818","title":{"rendered":"HuffPo: Prosecutor Tells Black Congressmembers The War On Drugs Isn&#8217;t Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/05\/30\/war-on-drugs_n_5419553.html\">Prosecutor Tells Black Congressmembers The War On Drugs Isn&#8217;t Racist<\/a> by Matt Sledge: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>McGruff the Crime Dog and Nancy Reagan must have been busy. Two former federal prosecutors testifying at a House Judiciary hearing on Friday said the U.S. is winning the war on drugs and claimed to &#8220;represent&#8221; poor communities of color. One of them, confronted with data about how drug laws disproportionately impact blacks, pled ignorance and refused to change his mind, saying, &#8220;I cannot argue the statistics.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPo: Prosecutor Tells Black Congressmembers The War On Drugs Isn&#8217;t Racist by Matt Sledge: McGruff the Crime Dog and Nancy Reagan must have been busy. Two former federal prosecutors testifying at a House Judiciary hearing on Friday said the U.S. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11818\">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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stop-and-frisk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11818","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11819,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11818\/revisions\/11819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}