{"id":44457,"date":"2014-08-19T17:30:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T23:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/19\/where-nobody-knows-your-name.html"},"modified":"2014-08-20T17:02:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T23:02:43","slug":"where-nobody-knows-your-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/19\/where-nobody-knows-your-name.html","title":{"rendered":"Where nobody knows your name"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Because if you can&#39;t identify a copy by name, or badge number, it&#39;s a lot harder to file a complaint. Of course, if there are pictures, then their bosses know who they are &#8212; which, if they&#39;re hiding their identity from the rest of the public, must mean they&#39;re not worried about what their bosses are going to do to them.<\/p>\n<p>That does not make for an accountable police force.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/117101325946444844338'>Michael Boudell<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Secret and unaccountable police? Police in Ferguson remove badges and name tags.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='overflow:hidden;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Hpu96FXbX4v5BMh_HhygR8z-H3RvWVgySqD2QSXMoL6RHt3_y_Eygr-s0Kn_dmsLuVn9cN7ItnomVgmwpSq7rdZTmKybuwqyHzOqr1AzKpiMj-N9cs39BnA2d6fh2JeDK0xgANnoTadj=w506-h303' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/8\/19\/6043483\/ferguson-police-impunity'>Police are operating with total impunity in Ferguson<\/a><br \/>\n                                                Everyone in authority acknowledges the cops have gone too far at times, but nobody&#8217;s doing anything about it.\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/cFPZWaEbgg2' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because if you can&#39;t identify a copy by name, or badge number, it&#39;s a lot harder to file a complaint. Of course, if there are pictures, then their bosses know who they are &#8212; which, if they&#39;re hiding their identity from the rest of the public, must mean they&#39;re not worried about what their bosses &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/19\/where-nobody-knows-your-name.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where nobody knows your name&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":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-44457","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":7718,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/13\/running_short_o.html","url_meta":{"origin":44457,"position":0},"title":"Running short of bodies","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 13-Jan-05 7:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"The new Doctor Who series has a need for dwarf midget little people as actors for various extraterrestrials. 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