{"id":18023,"date":"2015-07-13T11:28:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T16:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18023"},"modified":"2015-07-13T11:28:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T16:28:51","slug":"the-atlantic-how-aggressive-policing-affects-police-officers-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18023","title":{"rendered":"The Atlantic: How Aggressive Policing Affects Police Officers Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/07\/aggressive-policing-quotas\/398165\/\">How Aggressive Policing Affects Police Officers Themselves<\/a> by Saki Knafo:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the questions at the heart of the national debate over race and policing is why minorities are routinely arrested for petty offenses\u2014drinking on the sidewalk, hanging out in the park after it closes, driving with a suspended license. One reductive explanation for these arrests is that there\u2019s simply more crime in predominantly black and Latino neighborhoods. Another is that cops stereotype minorities as miscreants. But what if some of these arrests are motivated by something more official?<\/p>\n<p>. ..<\/p>\n<p>The pressure on cops to consistently deliver arrests and traffic stops is immense, and can discourage them from taking more effective approaches that aren&#8217;t as quantifiable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic: How Aggressive Policing Affects Police Officers Themselves by Saki Knafo: One of the questions at the heart of the national debate over race and policing is why minorities are routinely arrested for petty offenses\u2014drinking on the sidewalk, hanging &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18023\">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-18023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18023","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=18023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18024,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18023\/revisions\/18024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}