{"id":83351,"date":"2022-09-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83351"},"modified":"2022-09-14T09:29:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T14:29:05","slug":"messaging-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83351","title":{"rendered":"Messaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an ad running at my station, from some major police organization, urging people to not escalate issues with the police during routine contacts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s easier to de-escalate if you don\u2019t escalate\u201d , the add urges.Which is good advice, provided you trust both sides of the episode to be above board and trustworthy.<\/p>\n\n\n<p> The ad sticks in my craw, knowing the advice is only as trustworthy as the system it speaks about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which, when you remember that police are an arm of government, gets to be a little less sustainable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is why I\u2019m hoping some police department, somewhere, is having a word with this particular wannabe stormtrooper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Power corrupts. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mhRCk4w21V\">pic.twitter.com\/mhRCk4w21V<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Libertarian Party of Delaware (@LPofDelaware) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LPofDelaware\/status\/1569940682218815488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Police departments have spent the last couple of years trying to rebuild their public image, after a decade of episodes of police overreach, arrogance and brutality.  \ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s people like this that make it really hard to \u201cback to the blue\u201c without a big, bold asterisk afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPDATE: The officer, Breanna Straus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleweekly.com\/news\/federal-way-officer-receives-suspension-for-over-tiktok-video\/\">apparently was suspended.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn\u2019t enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an ad running at my station, from some major police organization, urging people to not escalate issues with the police during routine contacts. \u201cIt\u2019s easier to de-escalate if you don\u2019t escalate\u201d , the add urges.Which is good advice, provided you trust both sides of the episode to be above board and trustworthy. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,30,286,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-liberty","category-police-powers","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83351","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=83351"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83358,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83351\/revisions\/83358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}