{"id":9669,"date":"2013-10-27T13:18:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T13:18:15","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9669","title":{"rendered":"HuffPo: As The Drug War Escalates, SWAT Teams Become &#8216;Bullies With Badges And Guns&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/10\/25\/utah-police-reform_n_4150625.html\">As The Drug War Escalates, SWAT Teams Become &#8216;Bullies With Badges And Guns&#8217;<\/a> by Radley Balko (part 2 of 6 part series):<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>OGDEN, Utah &#8212; Former Sheriff William &#8220;Dub&#8221; Lawrence has watched with dismay as America&#8217;s war on drugs has escalated, and SWAT teams have become more aggressive, more militarized, and less focused on resolving disputes peacefully.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;SWAT teams have been infiltrated by bullies with badges and guns who foster a mentality that killing criminals reduces recidivism,&#8221; he says. &#8220;We&#8217;re on the wrong track. I look at what&#8217;s happened to law enforcement today, and I&#8217;m ashamed and heartbroken by what I see. We&#8217;ve lost sight of what&#8217;s important. We&#8217;ve lost sight of what the job should be about, which is protecting the constitutional rights of the people.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9669\">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-9669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669","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=9669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}