{"id":25661,"date":"2017-02-06T10:40:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T15:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25661"},"modified":"2017-02-07T11:30:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:30:17","slug":"miami-herald-ex-cop-convicted-of-stealing-from-drivers-during-traffic-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25661","title":{"rendered":"Miami Herald: Ex-cop convicted of stealing from drivers during traffic stops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami Herald: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/community\/miami-dade\/article130907654.html#storylink=cpy\">Ex-cop convicted of stealing from drivers during traffic stop<\/a> by David J. Neal:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A federal jury convicted a former Miami-Dade police detective of stealing from drivers during traffic stops and lying to cover up his dirty work.<\/p>\n<p>The legal terms for the abuse of power by William Kostopoulos, 49, are deprivation of rights under color of law and tampering with a witness. And the rights Kostopoulos deprived don\u2019t come much bigger: His thefts violated the U.S. Constitution\u2019s Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable seizure of property.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami Herald: Ex-cop convicted of stealing from drivers during traffic stop by David J. Neal:<\/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-25661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25661","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=25661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25688,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25661\/revisions\/25688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}