{"id":23920,"date":"2011-11-21T06:12:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T13:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/21\/cops-should-not-be-troops.html"},"modified":"2011-11-21T08:58:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T15:58:54","slug":"cops-should-not-be-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/21\/cops-should-not-be-troops.html","title":{"rendered":"Cops should not be troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting essay from a former Seattle police chief on the increasing militarization of the nation&#39;s police forces.  I don&#39;t agree with all of his solutions or diagnoses, but it&#39;s a thought-provoking read. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenation.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fuser%2F20%2Friot_police_rtr_img.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/164501\/paramilitary-policing-seattle-occupy-wall-street'>Paramilitary Policing From Seattle to Occupy Wall Street | The Nation<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAs Seattle police chief in 1999, my disastrous response to the WTO  protests should have been a cautionary tale. Yet our police forces have  only become more militarized.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><strong>Google+:<\/strong> Reshared <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Fdp8LDWYJpj' target='_new'>1<\/a> times <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting essay from a former Seattle police chief on the increasing militarization of the nation&#39;s police forces. I don&#39;t agree with all of his solutions or diagnoses, but it&#39;s a thought-provoking read. #ddtb Embedded Link Paramilitary Policing From Seattle to Occupy Wall Street | The Nation As Seattle police chief in 1999, my disastrous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/21\/cops-should-not-be-troops.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cops should not be troops&#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_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106,17],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-homeland-security","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":23920,"position":0},"title":"Still chatty after all these years","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Mar-21 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stupid Evil Podcast is ... well, it was fun.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DDtB-SEB Podcasts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DDtB-SEB Podcasts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/podcasts\/ddtb-seb-podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136275,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/and-lo-there-shall-come-another-seb-podcast.html","url_meta":{"origin":23920,"position":1},"title":"And, lo, there shall come another SEB Podcast!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-May-18 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been an astonishing three years since +Les Jenkins and I did one of his Stupid Evil Bastard podcasts (the biggest takeaway from which was that it had been three years since we previously did it, and that was clearly way, way too long). 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