{"id":37144,"date":"2013-07-08T06:45:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T11:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37144"},"modified":"2013-07-08T06:45:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T11:45:50","slug":"special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37144","title":{"rendered":"Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is hilarious.  During the Zimmerman trial, a cop called to testify wore her uniform with all her ribbons.  Some sharp-eyed blogger recognized the ribbons and posted about it, resulting in this revelation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/guardianofvalor.com\/marine-watching-zimmerman-trial-catches-officer-wearing-ribbon-reserved-for-wwii-vets\/\">She&#8217;s not authorized to wear those ribbons.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why didn\u2019t they come up with their own, or adopt those used by other law enforcement agencies like NYPD or LAPD?    Is this a symptom of the over-militarization of police, along with armored vehicles and assault rifles?   <\/p>\n<p> Why does the police department NEED to award ribbons to cops?  I don\u2019t get any ribbons at my job. And yes, now I wonder if I should be getting ribbons.  And medals.  And special days of honor and parades.  On a related note it always annoys me when a cop or fireman funeral is excuse to tie up traffic for miles around.  And excuse to tie up resources, burn up gas sending cops\/firemen from anywhere within a 1000 miles or more.  What would be the cop response to a parade of garbage trucks for a funeral, tying up traffic, blocking intersections for a half day or more, etc?  I&#8217;m guessing that then special permits would be needed and non-available.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes   <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mind the police funerals.   <\/p>\n<p>The militarization of the police, on the other hand, is a huge danger to our society.  More later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: This is hilarious. During the Zimmerman trial, a cop called to testify wore her uniform with all her ribbons. Some sharp-eyed blogger recognized the ribbons and posted about it, resulting in this revelation. She&#8217;s not authorized to wear those ribbons. Why didn\u2019t they come up with their own, or [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37144","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=37144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37145,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37144\/revisions\/37145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}