{"id":25753,"date":"2017-02-09T13:48:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T18:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25753"},"modified":"2017-02-09T15:21:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T20:21:32","slug":"wapo-the-watch-blog-11th-circuit-cops-werent-given-enough-notice-that-police-tactics-used-for-decades-are-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25753","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: &#8216;The Watch&#8217; Blog: 11th Circuit: Cops weren\u2019t given enough notice that police tactics used for decades are unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8216;The Watch&#8217; Blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2017\/02\/09\/11th-circuit-cops-werent-given-enough-notice-that-police-tactics-used-for-decades-are-unconstitutional\/?utm_term=.ba89d481060d\">11th Circuit: Cops weren\u2019t given enough notice that police tactics used for decades are unconstitutional<\/a> by Radley Balko:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now that the courts are finally coming around on the violation part, (and this isn\u2019t the first court to do so), they\u2019re reluctant to hold officers accountable because until only recently, the courts were part of the problem. Note that even this decision found nothing wrong with using flashbangs during a volatile SWAT raid over a &#8216;small quantity of a green leafy substance.&#8217; It was just the third one, which injured someone, that they find excessive. All of which means it\u2019s doubtful this decision will have any deterrent effect going forward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8216;The Watch&#8217; Blog: 11th Circuit: Cops weren\u2019t given enough notice that police tactics used for decades are unconstitutional by Radley Balko:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force","category-qualified-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25753","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=25753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25757,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25753\/revisions\/25757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}