{"id":29716,"date":"2012-08-20T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29716"},"modified":"2012-08-20T09:20:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T14:20:16","slug":"29716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29716","title":{"rendered":"The Sack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park writes in re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/west\/166266376.html\">an incident over the weekend<\/a> &#8211; a former semi-pro defensive end tackled an armed robber outside a Superamerica in Rogers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Store customer sees crime about to happen, takes prompt action to stop robbery and capture suspect while police officer stands around watching, gets snotty remark from Chief of Police.<\/p>\n<p>Lucky he didn\u2019t get arrested for interfering with the officer\u2019s observations, I suppose. Still, it\u2019s annoying. The Chief could have said \u201cHey, thanks for the assist, man, we\u2019ll take it from here; but for all you folks listening, don\u2019t try this at home . . . unless you\u2019re as big as my friend, here [big grin and fake punch in the shoulder].\u201d That would have been classy. Now, the Chief just looks prissy. Jerk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the one hand, I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a liability issue involved; some nutcase will no doubt sue a police chief that is seen to encourage &#8220;vigilantism&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>On the other? I&#8217;m a fire-breathing law-and-order libertarian\/conservative -and I&#8217;m getting more than a little concerned about the quality of the relationship between the police and the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park writes in re an incident over the weekend &#8211; a former semi-pro defensive end tackled an armed robber outside a Superamerica in Rogers: Store customer sees crime about to happen, takes prompt action to stop robbery and capture suspect while police officer stands around watching, gets snotty remark from Chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29719,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29716\/revisions\/29719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}