{"id":383,"date":"2014-11-15T21:54:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T21:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/15\/police-expert-war-on-terror-has-turned-our-cops\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:25:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:25:49","slug":"police-expert-war-on-terror-has-turned-our-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2014\/11\/15\/police-expert-war-on-terror-has-turned-our-cops\/","title":{"rendered":"Police expert: War on terror has turned our cops into occupying armies \u2014 and we\u2019re the enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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He said Americans have found themselves in danger from their own police officers because they did not object to previous abuses <\/strong><\/em> – and he said the police response to the Boston Marathon bombing proves the situation can only get worse.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(Emphasis mine.)<\/p>\n

Police expert: War on terror has turned our cops into occupying armies \u2014 and we\u2019re the enemy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He said Americans have found themselves in danger from their own police officers because they did not object to previous abuses – and he said the police response to the Boston Marathon bombing proves the situation can only get worse. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1124,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/02\/01\/federal-jury-says-cops-cant-arrest-people-for\/","url_meta":{"origin":383,"position":0},"title":"Federal Jury Says Cops Can’t Arrest People for Recording Police Encounters – Hit & Run : Reason Magazine","author":"aslam","date":"February 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties Last week a federal jury in Oregon awarded damages to an environmental activist who sued the city of Eugene after a police officer seized his video camera and arrested him for wiretapping.Via reason.com","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":930,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/07\/29\/dc-police-chief-announces-shockingly-reasonable\/","url_meta":{"origin":383,"position":1},"title":"DC police chief announces shockingly reasonable cell camera policy","author":"aslam","date":"July 29, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"See on Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties She bans DC cops from confiscating cell cameras or harrassing their owners.See on arstechnica.com","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":348,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2014\/12\/21\/ft-bend-police-prosecutors-accused-of-abuse-in\/","url_meta":{"origin":383,"position":2},"title":"Ft. 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