{"id":337,"date":"2006-07-19T23:22:47","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T04:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2006-07-19T23:33:55","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T04:33:55","slug":"swat-being-overused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"SWAT Being Overused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/archives\/articles\/2006\/7\/17\/222729.shtml?s=al\">NewsMax.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a new study by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/www.cato.org\">Cato Institute&#8217;s<\/a> <span class=\"articleContent\">Radley Balko SWAT teams are increasingly being used to take down small time drug offenders. These take downs are resulting in incidents of violence that don&#8217;t need to take place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cato is one of my favorite organizations, because they truly stand for all things libertarian.<\/p>\n<p>Check out a review of Radley Balko&#8217;s book concerning the same subject, <a href=\"http:\/\/cato.org\/pub_display.php?pub_id=6476\">Overkill<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: NewsMax.com According to a new study by the Cato Institute&#8217;s Radley Balko SWAT teams are increasingly being used to take down small time drug offenders. These take downs are resulting in incidents of violence that don&#8217;t need to take place. Cato is one of my favorite organizations, because they truly stand for all things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}