{"id":23248,"date":"2016-08-05T16:25:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T21:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23248"},"modified":"2016-08-05T16:25:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T21:25:57","slug":"wapo-the-watch-blog-utah-swat-stats-show-militarized-tactics-used-less-but-still-overwhelmingly-for-drug-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23248","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: &#8216;The Watch&#8217; Blog: Utah SWAT stats show militarized tactics used less, but still overwhelmingly for drug crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2016\/08\/02\/utah-swat-stats-show-militarized-tactics-used-less-but-still-overwhelmingly-for-drug-crimes\/\">&#8216;The Watch&#8217; Blog: Utah SWAT stats show militarized tactics used less, but still overwhelmingly for drug crimes<\/a> by Radley Balko:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That\u2019s a massive increase in the use of tactics that are inherently volatile, risky and violent. It\u2019s unfortunate that Utah is the only state where legislators believe such a trend demands some transparency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8216;The Watch&#8217; Blog: Utah SWAT stats show militarized tactics used less, but still overwhelmingly for drug crimes by Radley Balko: That\u2019s a massive increase in the use of tactics that are inherently volatile, risky and violent. It\u2019s unfortunate that &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23248\">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-23248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23248","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=23248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23249,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23248\/revisions\/23249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}