{"id":18217,"date":"2015-07-29T17:20:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T22:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18217"},"modified":"2015-07-29T17:20:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T22:20:13","slug":"wapo-opinion-the-complexities-of-traffic-stops-from-a-police-officers-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18217","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Opinion: The complexities of traffic stops, from a police officer\u2019s perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

WaPo: Opinion: The complexities of traffic stops, from a police officer\u2019s perspective<\/a> by Peter Moskos:<\/p>\n

Little about policing is ideal. But that\u2019s why we have police officers, to handle non-ideal situations. These often involve people who are lost, mentally ill, criminals or victims. And, like Sandra Bland, nobody should die because police officers are more interested in absolute dominance than professional, moral and tactical discretion. Peaceful resolution isn\u2019t just the right thing to do \u2014 it\u2019s the very purpose of policing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WaPo: Opinion: The complexities of traffic stops, from a police officer\u2019s perspective by Peter Moskos: Little about policing is ideal. But that\u2019s why we have police officers, to handle non-ideal situations. These often involve people who are lost, mentally ill, … Continue reading →<\/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-18217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18217","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=18217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18218,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18217\/revisions\/18218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}