{"id":65426,"date":"2017-12-14T07:50:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T13:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65426"},"modified":"2017-12-14T07:50:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T13:50:37","slug":"on-the-one-hand-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65426","title":{"rendered":"On The One Hand&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;the bureaucracy &#8211; any bureaucracy &#8211; runs by rules of its own.\u00a0 Those rules usually have\u00a0 more to do with sustaining bureaucracy itself than to solving whatever problem or administering whatever service that bureaucracy is supposed to be doing.<\/p>\n<p>On the other?\u00a0 Read past the bureaucratese in this report and it appears that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apmreports.org\/story\/2017\/12\/14\/minneapolis-police-recruits-psychological-testing\">the Minneapolis Police Department has been shaving a lot of corners on psychological testing<\/a> of its new recruits.<\/p>\n<p>Does this have anything to do with, among other things, the Damond shooting?\u00a0 Bureaucratic checkbox-checkers running amok?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe a little bit of both?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;the bureaucracy &#8211; any bureaucracy &#8211; runs by rules of its own.\u00a0 Those rules usually have\u00a0 more to do with sustaining bureaucracy itself than to solving whatever problem or administering whatever service that bureaucracy is supposed to be doing. On the other?\u00a0 Read past the bureaucratese in this report and it appears that the Minneapolis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65426","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=65426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65427,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65426\/revisions\/65427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}