{"id":13466,"date":"2014-09-27T22:50:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T03:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13466"},"modified":"2014-09-28T07:51:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T12:51:51","slug":"nytimes-todays-police-put-on-a-gun-and-a-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13466","title":{"rendered":"NYTImes: Today&#8217;s Police Put on a Gun and a Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTImes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/09\/28\/us\/todays-police-put-on-a-gun-and-a-camera.html?ref=todayspaper&#038;_r=0\">Today&#8217;s Police Put on a Gun and a Camera<\/a> by Kirk Johnson: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PULLMAN, Wash. \u2014 Amateur videos of police officers doing their jobs have become part of the fabric of urban democracy, with embarrassing or violent images spreading via social media in minutes.<\/p>\n<p>But more police agencies, especially after the unrest following an unarmed teenager\u2019s shooting in Ferguson, Mo., are recording events with small body-mounted cameras.<\/p>\n<p>In just the last few weeks, law enforcement agencies in at least a dozen cities, including Ferguson; Flagstaff, Ariz.; Minneapolis; Norfolk, Va.; and Washington, have said they are equipping officers with video cameras. Miami Beach approved the purchase of $3 million worth of cameras for police officers, parking enforcement workers, and building and fire inspectors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTImes: Today&#8217;s Police Put on a Gun and a Camera by Kirk Johnson: PULLMAN, Wash. \u2014 Amateur videos of police officers doing their jobs have become part of the fabric of urban democracy, with embarrassing or violent images spreading via &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13466\">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-13466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466","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=13466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13467,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466\/revisions\/13467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}