{"id":12585,"date":"2014-07-19T13:33:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T18:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12585"},"modified":"2014-07-19T13:37:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T18:37:27","slug":"wapo-radley-balko-cops-caught-improperly-seizing-cars-then-selling-them-off-the-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12585","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Radley Balko: Cops caught improperly seizing cars, then selling them off the books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Radley Balko: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2014\/07\/18\/lunch-links-cops-caught-improperly-seizing-cars-then-selling-them-off-the-books\/\">Cops caught improperly seizing cars, then selling them off the books<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/2013\/11\/23\/3396887\/in-hamlet-crushed-cars-angry-owners.html\">Small-town cops caught<\/a> improperly seizing cars for minor traffic violations, then selling them to junkyards. Most of the transactions were off the books, and a lot of the money is still unaccounted for.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2014\/07\/18\/police-militarization-roundup\/\">Police militarization roundup<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nashville\u2019s NewsChannel 5 \u2014 which does some fantastic investigative reporting \u2014 looks at police militarization in Tennessee. (Disclosure: NewsChannel 5 interviewed me as part of its investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Radley Balko: Cops caught improperly seizing cars, then selling them off the books: Small-town cops caught improperly seizing cars for minor traffic violations, then selling them to junkyards. Most of the transactions were off the books, and a lot &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12585\">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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585","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=12585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12588,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585\/revisions\/12588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}