{"id":21536,"date":"2013-08-07T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T05:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21536"},"modified":"2013-08-06T20:15:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T01:15:59","slug":"reason-tv-radley-balko-discusses-militarization-of-police-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/08\/07\/reason-tv-radley-balko-discusses-militarization-of-police-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason.tv &#8211; Radley Balko Discusses Militarization of Police Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2DgCsDqtYkA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 6 Aug 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The police have become more militarized, more soldier-like in the last generation or two,&#8221; explains journalist and author Radley Balko. &#8220;It applies to the weapons they are using, the uniforms they wear&#8230;to the tactics they use, to what I think is the most pervasive problem which is the mindset that police officers take to the job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Balko, author of the new book <em>Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America&#8217;s Police Forces<\/em>, sat down with <em>ReasonTV<\/em> to discuss the book, the growth and development of SWAT forces, and how the drug war has fostered an &#8220;us against them&#8221; mentality within police departments.<\/p>\n<p>Balko is a senior writer and investigative reporter at the <em>Huffington Post<\/em>. His work primarily focuses on the drug war and police abuse. Previously, Balko worked as a senior editor for <em>Reason<\/em> Magazine. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 6 Aug 2013 &#8220;The police have become more militarized, more soldier-like in the last generation or two,&#8221; explains journalist and author Radley Balko. &#8220;It applies to the weapons they are using, the uniforms they wear&#8230;to the tactics they use, to what I think is the most pervasive problem which is the mindset that [&hellip;]<\/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":[32,9,10,28,13],"tags":[725,98],"class_list":["post-21536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-law","category-liberty","category-media","category-usa","tag-militarization","tag-police"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5Bm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21536","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=21536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21537,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21536\/revisions\/21537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}