{"id":20005,"date":"2013-04-26T10:30:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T15:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20005"},"modified":"2013-05-06T16:57:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T21:57:17","slug":"minnesota-introduces-new-policy-for-dealing-with-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/04\/26\/minnesota-introduces-new-policy-for-dealing-with-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota introduces new policy for dealing with veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may not hear about this in the mainstream press, but The Duffel Blog<\/em><\/a> digs for the real story:<\/p>\n

Officials from the Minnesota Department of Motor Vehicles have confirmed approval of a new policy making it mandatory for all active-duty and military veterans to register their status with the agency. The move will require all veterans to have a special \u201cVet\u201d designation on their drivers\u2019 licenses and state identification cards.<\/p>\n

The Minn. DMV, which hopes to have the policy implemented by 2015, cites an inherent mental health threat by veterans as their main reason for devising the plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen what these savages are capable of all over CNN and MSNBC,\u201d says DMV director, Greg Olson. \u201cOut of all the millions of men and women who have deployed to combat zones this past decade, there are literally a dozen, perhaps even two, who have come home and committed atrocious acts. That\u2019s way too big a chance. We can\u2019t risk having these people hidden in our community and will be making sure they\u2019re easily identifiable to law enforcement personnel and citizens in general.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new strategy will most likely result in changed police escalation-of-force procedure when dealing with veterans during routine traffic stops.<\/p>\n

According to Olson, law enforcement officers will be given more opportunity to defend themselves against a perceived threat.<\/p>\n

\u201cPhase One will consist of the officer identifying an individual\u2019s vet status on his or her driver\u2019s license,\u201d he says. \u201cOnce the officer realizes what he or she is dealing with, Phase Two will kick in and they will immediately unsheathe their pistol and drawdown on the potential psychopath. Then, at Phase Three, the officer will be given free reign to search the individual\u2019s vehicle for weapons and dead bodies. If, and only if, the officer doesn\u2019t find anything, then he will subsequently release the veteran and thank them for their service.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may not hear about this in the mainstream press, but The Duffel Blog digs for the real story: Officials from the Minnesota Department of Motor Vehicles have confirmed approval of a new policy making it mandatory for all active-duty and military veterans to register their status with the agency. The move will require all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,5,13],"tags":[906,489,463,98,101],"class_list":["post-20005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-military","category-usa","tag-mentalhealth","tag-minnesota","tag-parody","tag-police","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5cF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20143,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20005\/revisions\/20143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}