{"id":172382,"date":"2015-01-16T14:56:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T14:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/16\/cartoonpolitics-new-york-cops-miffed-by\/"},"modified":"2018-09-11T15:36:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T15:36:49","slug":"cartoonpolitics-new-york-cops-miffed-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/16\/cartoonpolitics-new-york-cops-miffed-by\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-172382 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/16\/cartoonpolitics-new-york-cops-miffed-by\/attachment\/172383\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tumblr_nhton1nWrd1r55d2io1_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tumblr_nhton1nWrd1r55d2io1_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tumblr_nhton1nWrd1r55d2io1_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com\/post\/107430177345\/new-york-cops-miffed-by-accusations-of-brutality\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">cartoonpolitics<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>New York cops, miffed by accusations of brutality and over-reaction and in a direct challenge to the peoples elected representative, Mayor Bill de Blasio, are staging a \u2018work slowdown\u2019. Arrests have fallen dramatically by at least 66% and police say they\u2019re now making arrests \u201conly when they have to\u201d (which is what they should always be doing anyway). They\u2019ve temporarily stopped using arrests as a way of keeping a lid on structural social problems and as a form of backdoor taxation. Ironically (and quite\u00a0 unintentionally) this could point the way to better policing nationwide (but it won\u2019t). \u00a0 .<em>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/nypd-ironically-proving-police-work-completely-unnecessary\/\" target=\"_blank\">story here)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cartoonpolitics: New York cops, miffed by accusations of brutality and over-reaction and in a direct challenge to the peoples elected representative, Mayor Bill de Blasio, are staging a \u2018work slowdown\u2019. Arrests have fallen dramatically by at least 66% and police say they\u2019re now making arrests \u201conly when they have to\u201d (which is what they should &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/16\/cartoonpolitics-new-york-cops-miffed-by\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[7500,18914,60,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172384,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172382\/revisions\/172384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}