{"id":17224,"date":"2015-05-12T15:14:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T20:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17224"},"modified":"2015-05-12T15:14:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T20:14:50","slug":"wapo-the-increasing-isolation-of-americas-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17224","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: The increasing isolation of America\u2019s police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2015\/05\/11\/the-increasing-isolation-of-americas-police\/\">The increasing isolation of America\u2019s police<\/a> by Radley Balko:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Politico has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/05\/the-secret-weapon-for-police-117779.html?hp=t4_r\">put up a fascinating profile<\/a> of Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, which is the country\u2019s largest police union.<\/p>\n<p>More than anything, the profile highlights how law enforcement is politically positioned in a way that basically immunizes from criticism and oversight. Republicans have long been loathe to criticize police and police unions because they see themselves as the law-and-order party, despite the fact that deference to police ought to run afoul of their alleged dedication to limited government, and that Pasco\u2019s group ought to animate the GOP\u2019s distrust of public service unions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: The increasing isolation of America\u2019s police by Radley Balko: Politico has put up a fascinating profile of Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, which is the country\u2019s largest police union. More than anything, the profile &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17224\">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-17224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17224","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=17224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17225,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17224\/revisions\/17225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}