{"id":44354,"date":"2014-08-14T14:04:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T20:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/14\/clothes-make-the-man-including-the-policeman.html"},"modified":"2014-08-14T15:58:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T21:58:41","slug":"clothes-make-the-man-including-the-policeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/14\/clothes-make-the-man-including-the-policeman.html","title":{"rendered":"Clothes make the man — including the policeman"},"content":{"rendered":"
Plenty to chew on in the article as a whole, but this particular bit stuck out at me as worth quoting (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n

'The worst part of outfitting our police officers as soldiers has been psychological. <\/i>Give a man access to drones, tanks, and body armor, and he'll reasonably think that his job isn't simply to maintain peace, but to eradicate danger.<\/i><\/b> Instead of protecting and serving, police are searching and destroying.<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n

If officers are soldiers, it follows that the neighborhoods they patrol are battlefields. And if they're working battlefields, it follows that the population is the enemy.'<\/i><\/p>\n

And, of course, if you treat the population as the enemy, then the population will treat you as the enemy. And that doesn't end well for anyone.<\/i>\ufeff<\/div>\n

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America Is Not For Black People<\/a>
\n The United States of America is not for black people. We know this, and then we put it out of our minds, and then something happens to remind us. Saturday, in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo., something like that happened: An unarmed 18-year-old black man was executed by police in broad daylight.\n <\/p>\n

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Plenty to chew on in the article as a whole, but this particular bit stuck out at me as worth quoting (emphasis mine): 'The worst part of outfitting our police officers as soldiers has been psychological. Give a man access to drones, tanks, and body armor, and he'll reasonably think that his job isn't simply … Continue reading “Clothes make the man — including the policeman”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[106,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3512,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/11\/05\/bang_the_gavel.html","url_meta":{"origin":44354,"position":0},"title":"Bang the Gavel","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-Nov-02 9:28am","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the interesting (a very loaded and often understated word, as in \"May You Live in Interesting Times\") aspects to events of the last year-and-change has been an examination...","rel":"","context":"In "Geopolitical Brouhaha"","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9968,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/04\/allow_me_a_brief_rant_if.html","url_meta":{"origin":44354,"position":1},"title":"Allow me a brief rant, if you will","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-Oct-06 6:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"I listened to an interview with John Yoo this morning on NPR. 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