{"id":1264,"date":"2012-05-08T11:03:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T16:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2012-05-08T11:03:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T16:03:16","slug":"just-another-isolated-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=1264","title":{"rendered":"Just another isolated incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many &#8220;isolated incidents&#8221; do you need before you get to the &#8220;widespread institutional behavior&#8221; level? How many until you get to &#8220;standard operating procedure&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsmv.com\/story\/18168855\/officer-charged-after-video-shows-beating\">Officer charged after video shows beating<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a six minute local news report attached to that article. Your standard local newscast is 22 minutes of programming.<\/p>\n<p>The long and short of it is a couple of officers beat the crap out of a senior citizen, put him in the hospital, and then charged him with assaulting two police officers.<\/p>\n<p>Only problem is, there&#8217;s video. Now the officers are in trouble (for assault, not for false arrest or lying on a police report or any of that other boring procedural stuff that the rest of us would be crucified for) and the victim is clearly recognized as the victim.<\/p>\n<p>But, you know, isolated incident.<\/p>\n<p>Just like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/broward\/fort-lauderdale\/fl-cop-trial-wimberley-closings-20120504,0,6383161.story\">this other one from Florida<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many &#8220;isolated incidents&#8221; do you need before you get to the &#8220;widespread institutional behavior&#8221; level? How many until you get to &#8220;standard operating procedure&#8221;? Officer charged after video shows beating There is a six minute local news report attached to that article. Your standard local newscast is 22 minutes of programming. The long and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-officer-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}