{"id":6964,"date":"2013-06-30T13:57:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T17:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=6964"},"modified":"2013-06-30T13:58:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T17:58:31","slug":"gonna-cheat-a-little-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=6964","title":{"rendered":"Gonna cheat a little today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I was going to rail about the police state tactics that have become the norm in local sherriffs and police departments and the unwarranted proliferation of swat tactics for every situation&#8230;okay, maybe I will talk about that a little&#8230;a few days back, a man went missing from his family and they reported to the police that he may be distraught&#8230;not armed or anything like that but just having some mental problems&#8230;so, what was the response of the police here? To roll out the local swat team with their full body armor and automatic weapons&#8230;yep, a mentally distraught man that is just having some problems and the only response the military blinded police around here could think of is going to defcon 1&#8230;not sending a psychiatrist or other mental health professional which is what the situation warranted. It seems to me these folks are just looking for the chance to play army man&#8230;and when this nonsense happens, people end up dead by accident&#8230;I, for one, have had enough of the militarization of the police in this country and the idea that every citizen can be treated like a terrorist&#8230;when the swat teams are the ones propagating terror on the rest of us&#8230;they should all be disbanded and the members of these teams retrained to see the people they are terrorizing as their bosses again&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I was going to rail about the police state tactics that have become the norm in local sherriffs and police departments and the unwarranted proliferation of swat tactics for every situation&#8230;okay, maybe I will talk about that a little&#8230;a few days back, a man went missing from his family and they reported to the police &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=6964\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gonna cheat a little today&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[919,918],"class_list":["post-6964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-police-militarization","tag-swat-teams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6964"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6967,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions\/6967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}