{"id":2977,"date":"2015-05-22T12:33:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T16:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2015-05-22T12:37:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T16:37:21","slug":"patrick-dorismond-remembering-a-victim-of-the-war-on-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/patrick-dorismond-remembering-a-victim-of-the-war-on-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Dorismond: Remembering a Victim of the War on Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Barack Obama has wielded his executive authority to reduce the amount of military equipment flowing to local cops. His action comes in response to demonstrations of force by policy during the civil disturbances in Ferguson and Baltimore. Congressmen on the right and left also have been up in arms about this matter, albeit for different reasons.<\/p>\n

The 1033 program, as it\u2019s termed, sends $500,000 annually in Pentagon war gear to communities big and small. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen,\u201d the president told a Camden, N.J.<\/a> crowd, \u201chow militarized gear can sometimes give people the feeling like there\u2019s an occupied force, as opposed to a force that is part of that community it is protecting and serving.\u201d So, the flow of MRAP (mine-resistant ambush-protected) vehicles and the like will slow a bit…. (Read more at Chiseler.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Barack Obama has wielded his executive authority to reduce the amount of military equipment flowing to local cops. His action comes in response to demonstrations of force by policy during the civil disturbances in Ferguson and Baltimore. Congressmen on the right and left also have been up in arms about this matter, albeit for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[69,167],"tags":[181],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-policy","category-regulation","tag-the-chiseler"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-M1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2979,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions\/2979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}