{"id":9013,"date":"2013-07-05T13:18:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T13:18:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T13:18:19","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9013","title":{"rendered":"ABAJ.com: How did America\u2019s police become a military force on the streets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABAJ.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/magazine\/article\/how_did_americas_police_become_a_military_force_on_the_streets\/?utm_source=maestro&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=weekly_email\">How did America\u2019s police become a military force on the streets?<\/a> by Radley Balko:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Are cops constitutional?<\/p>\n<p>In a 2001 article for the Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal, the legal scholar and civil liberties activist Roger Roots posed just that question. Roots, a fairly radical libertarian, believes that the U.S. Constitution doesn\u2019t allow for police as they exist today. At the very least, he argues, police departments, powers and practices today violate the document\u2019s spirit and intent. \u201cUnder the criminal justice model known to the framers, professional police of&#64257;cers were unknown,\u201d Roots writes.<br \/>\n  .<br \/>\nThe founders and their contemporaries would probably have seen even the early-19th-century police forces as a standing army, and a particularly odious one at that. Just before the American Revolution, it wasn\u2019t the stationing of British troops in the colonies that irked patriots in Boston and Virginia; it was England\u2019s decision to use the troops for everyday law enforcement.  &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9013\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}