{"id":3979,"date":"2010-06-03T12:48:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T16:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3979"},"modified":"2010-06-03T12:48:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T16:48:36","slug":"toronto-police-tougher-than-the-rcmp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/06\/03\/toronto-police-tougher-than-the-rcmp\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Police tougher than the RCMP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2010\/06\/03\/toronto-police-tougher-than-the-rcmp\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly McParland<\/a> notes that even though the RCMP have a lot of tough-guy things on their list of &#8220;will do&#8221;, there&#8217;s one thing Toronto Police will do that the RCMP won&#8217;t:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The RCMP will Taser an old lady at the drop of a hat.<br \/>\nThey\u2019ll Taser a guy in an airport because he\u2019s holding a stapler and looks upset.<br \/>\nThey\u2019ll Taser the disabled.<br \/>\nThey\u2019ll Taser a 15-year-old girl in handcuffs.<br \/>\nThey\u2019ll Taser an 82-year-old heart patient in a hospital bed.<br \/>\nThey\u2019ll Taser someone who\u2019s been hog-tied, pepper-sprayed, handcuffed and manacled.<br \/>\nThey\u2019ll Taser just about anything that can be Tasered. But they won\u2019t use \u201csound cannons\u201d in the middle of a city. Too risky.<br \/>\nToronto police are buying four of the ear blasters for the G20 summit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly McParland notes that even though the RCMP have a lot of tough-guy things on their list of &#8220;will do&#8221;, there&#8217;s one thing Toronto Police will do that the RCMP won&#8217;t: The RCMP will Taser an old lady at the drop of a hat. They\u2019ll Taser a guy in an airport because he\u2019s holding a [&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":[6,9],"tags":[432,98,567,334,207],"class_list":["post-3979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-law","tag-diplomacy","tag-police","tag-rcmp","tag-security","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-12b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979","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=3979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3980,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions\/3980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}