{"id":129305,"date":"2015-12-30T10:03:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T17:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/30\/apparently-talking-about-police-abuse-doesnt-lead-to-more-crime-or-police-deaths.html"},"modified":"2015-12-30T10:03:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T17:03:05","slug":"apparently-talking-about-police-abuse-doesnt-lead-to-more-crime-or-police-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/30\/apparently-talking-about-police-abuse-doesnt-lead-to-more-crime-or-police-deaths.html","title":{"rendered":"Apparently talking about police abuse doesn&#039;t lead to more crime or police deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, it doesn&#39;t seem to have done much to stem said abuse, given the number of noteworthy acquittals or refusals to file charges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2015\/12\/22\/in-the-end-2015-saw-no-war-on-cops-and-no-national-crime-wave\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/qqHIAkCO8A-aW6OgkGGfBnPePBko0pbY4iFFOKwnwaW2qpvdrhA5hkSjQuE2Q33v-RK5QJBKslca95lBwQ8-fXSHWWhO0coSgSe3H5ShOOBKB02mTitp1rPP-XZ4heYjCBBT4QMa0-a1DOeRvQ=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2015\/12\/22\/in-the-end-2015-saw-no-war-on-cops-and-no-national-crime-wave\/'>In the end, 2015 saw no &lsquo;war on cops&rsquo; and no &lsquo;national crime wave&rsquo;<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nDespite claims to the contrary, 2015 will have been a historically safe year in the United States &#8212; for cops and for everyone else.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/it4UM1yQxWS'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, it doesn&#39;t seem to have done much to stem said abuse, given the number of noteworthy acquittals or refusals to file charges. In the end, 2015 saw no &lsquo;war on cops&rsquo; and no &lsquo;national crime wave&rsquo; Despite claims to the contrary, 2015 will have been a historically safe year in the United States &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/30\/apparently-talking-about-police-abuse-doesnt-lead-to-more-crime-or-police-deaths.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apparently talking about police abuse doesn&#039;t lead to more crime or police deaths&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50091,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/15\/serpico-on-police-lies-and-videotape.html","url_meta":{"origin":129305,"position":0},"title":"Serpico on police, lies, and videotape","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 15-Apr-15 5:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, not videotape, but video images conjoined with too many \"testi-lying\" reports from cops run the risk of profoundly changing the opinions of the general public about cops. 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