{"id":129165,"date":"2015-12-17T14:33:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T21:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/17\/when-cops-are-accused.html"},"modified":"2015-12-19T17:59:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T00:59:13","slug":"when-cops-are-accused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/17\/when-cops-are-accused.html","title":{"rendered":"When Cops Are Accused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cops who are accused of wrongdoing don&#39;t get treated like ordinary citizens under arrest or brought in for questioning when being investigated. Not only are there various legal protections, but under union contracts in most big cities they usually get a variety of protections against &quot;unfair&quot; or &quot;coercive&quot; (or even &quot;inconvenient&quot;) interrogation, get transcripts of statements they&#39;ve made, are protected from having their pictures circulated, are only questioned during on-duty hours, and other such niceties that you or I aren&#39;t graced with. <\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s <i>good<\/i> to be in law enforcement when someone is trying to enforce the law against <i>you<\/i> &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2015\/12\/police-contract-protections-interrogation-chicago'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/-eWehp3OpvUtxkZcASj5D6MfS04VhMR5VsLYlX9xx__T6ZM3AMKA9S5tmX2okycCSuHIldvHJfmzOgYRA5g5hR3hFV0MwDeil679=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2015\/12\/police-contract-protections-interrogation-chicago'>9 ways police have more protections than you do when they&#8217;re arrested<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nA civil rights lawyer reflects on officers&#8217; &#8220;super due process.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/GLjxssscUBW'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cops who are accused of wrongdoing don&#39;t get treated like ordinary citizens under arrest or brought in for questioning when being investigated. Not only are there various legal protections, but under union contracts in most big cities they usually get a variety of protections against &quot;unfair&quot; or &quot;coercive&quot; (or even &quot;inconvenient&quot;) interrogation, get transcripts of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/17\/when-cops-are-accused.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When Cops Are Accused&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,715,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-crime-punishment","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32839,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/20\/freedom-vs-security.html","url_meta":{"origin":129165,"position":0},"title":"Freedom vs. Security","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 20-Mar-13 7:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, let's be fair. 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