{"id":13194,"date":"2014-09-15T00:47:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T05:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13194"},"modified":"2014-09-14T19:49:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T00:49:48","slug":"politico-uphill-battle-on-police-militarization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13194","title":{"rendered":"Politico: Uphill battle on police militarization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politico: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/09\/police-militarization-110690.html?hp=r4\">Uphill battle on police militarization<\/a> by Byron Tau:<\/p>\n<p>Police leadership is often fiercely protective of the right to run their departments as they please.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police crowd-control techniques and military-like equipment used in response to protests in Ferguson, Missouri, following the shooting death of Michael Brown have sparked a national conversation about the relationship between police and the civilians they\u2019re charged with protecting.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico: Uphill battle on police militarization by Byron Tau: Police leadership is often fiercely protective of the right to run their departments as they please. Police crowd-control techniques and military-like equipment used in response to protests in Ferguson, Missouri, following &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13194\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13194","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=13194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13195,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13194\/revisions\/13195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}