{"id":59758,"date":"2016-07-29T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59758"},"modified":"2017-06-21T15:53:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T20:53:14","slug":"59758","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59758","title":{"rendered":"Keystoned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Neither the Castile shooting nor the Miami shooting seem like racial incidents.\u00a0 They seem like Keystone Kops incidents: running in circles, nobody in charge, contradictory commands, misinterpreted actions, improper over-reaction. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When a mass of cops arrive at the scene, who\u2019s in charge?\u00a0 Who gives the orders?\u00a0 Who decides when to shoot?\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t seem to be a consistent policy and as a result, people are getting shot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">I can forgive an honest error in judgment.\u00a0 I can\u2019t overlook incompetence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">A few years (OK &#8211; a few decades) back, I read about the training involved in a hostage rescue team, including the danger involved with lots of men running around in a cramped space, high on adrenaline and guns. \u00a0The training to develop the teamwork necessary to make the team more dangerous to &#8220;the enemy&#8221; than to themselves alone was a long, drawn-out process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Do local SWAT teams, much less patrol cops, get this?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I don&#8217;t think so, but I&#8217;m genuinely curious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Neither the Castile shooting nor the Miami shooting seem like racial incidents.\u00a0 They seem like Keystone Kops incidents: running in circles, nobody in charge, contradictory commands, misinterpreted actions, improper over-reaction. \u00a0 When a mass of cops arrive at the scene, who\u2019s in charge?\u00a0 Who gives the orders?\u00a0 Who decides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286,100],"tags":[378],"class_list":["post-59758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police-powers","category-your-papers-please","tag-castile-case"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59760,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59758\/revisions\/59760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}