{"id":8628,"date":"2013-02-20T07:22:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T12:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8628"},"modified":"2013-02-20T07:31:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T12:31:32","slug":"could-your-local-police-force-be-as-corrupt-as-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8628","title":{"rendered":"Could your local police force be as corrupt as this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/03\/opinion\/sunday\/why-police-officers-lie-under-oath.html?pagewanted=1&#038;_r=0:\/\/\">New York Times<\/a> by way of my Buddy:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that our legal system has become so tolerant of police lying indicates how corrupted our criminal justice system has become by declarations of war, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153get tough\u00e2\u20ac\u009d mantras, and a seemingly insatiable appetite for locking up and locking out the poorest and darkest among us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This echos the disturbing testimony of NY cop Adrian Schoolcraft who seems allergic to lies. I heard this on This American Life a couple year&#8217;s back. Listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/radio-archives\/episode\/414\/right-to-remain-silent\">the podcast<\/a> here its Act 2. <\/p>\n<p>This helps explain the reasons why <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?s=for+profit+prisons\">our prisons<\/a> are bloated and bankrupting us while condemning many to the dustbin of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of the New York Times by way of my Buddy: &#8220;The fact that our legal system has become so tolerant of police lying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8628"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8633,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8628\/revisions\/8633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}