{"id":16416,"date":"2015-03-19T12:04:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T17:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16416"},"modified":"2015-03-19T12:06:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T17:06:19","slug":"wapo-radley-balko-were-asking-the-wrong-question-about-police-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16416","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Radley Balko: We&#8217;re asking the wrong question about police shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Radley Balko: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2015\/03\/18\/were-asking-the-wrong-question-about-police-shootings\/\">We&#8217;re asking the wrong question about police shootings<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But I recently spoke on a panel at the University of South Carolina with the former police officer and now law professor Seth Stoughton. He made a point that I think is critical in how we think about these incidents: We shouldn\u2019t be asking if the police actions were legal or within department policy; we should be asking if they were necessary. Or if you\u2019d like to use a word with a bit more urgency behind it, we should ask if they\u2019re acceptable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Radley Balko: We&#8217;re asking the wrong question about police shootings: But I recently spoke on a panel at the University of South Carolina with the former police officer and now law professor Seth Stoughton. He made a point that &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16416\">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":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16416","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=16416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16418,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16416\/revisions\/16418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}