{"id":1302,"date":"2011-12-03T16:59:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T00:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2012-01-31T18:27:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T02:27:44","slug":"police-promise-to-take-legal-action-if-they-are-injured-by-ows-protestors-george-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1302","title":{"rendered":"Police promise to take legal action if they are injured by OWS protestors-George Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Police and their supporters always talk about how policing is such a difficult and dangerous job. As with most things related to police, this attitude is derived from general misconception, ignorance, and a tendency of people to arbitrarily worship those in fancy uniforms. Year after year, policing fails to make the top ten list<\/a> of most dangerous professions. The dangers they face on the job consistently fall below that of pilots, loggers, sanitation workers, farmers, fishers, etc.<\/p>\n

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George Sand received her B.A. from UCLA and her J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law.\u00c2\u00a0 She enjoys beer, jogging, the beach and music in her spare time. Contact the author at george.sand@copblock.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Police and their supporters always talk about how policing is such a difficult and dangerous job. As with most things related to police, this attitude is derived from general misconception, ignorance, and a tendency of people to arbitrarily worship those in fancy uniforms. Year after year, policing fails to make the top ten list of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[182,6],"tags":[445,446,447,448,193,449,450,451,452,453,454,455],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tQeJ-l0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1312,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1312","url_meta":{"origin":1302,"position":0},"title":"Tiananmen Tank Man was disobeying lawful orders and should have been shot- George Sand","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"December 7, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"by George Sand Tiananmen Square, China, 1989I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand American admiration of the lone man who stood in the path of a tank in the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that is, unless you are a police-hating American. If you are an American who hates, dislikes, or mistrusts police\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1353,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1353","url_meta":{"origin":1302,"position":1},"title":"Immunities don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exist, and of course the government always does a better job at protection","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"December 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Repeatedly, police and their apologists insist that police are held accountable regularly, and in fact are held to a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153higher\u00e2\u20ac\u009d standard than ordinary people. This simply isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the case, according to the law (and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t police and their supporters care about the law?) Below are several provisions of the California\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1409,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1409","url_meta":{"origin":1302,"position":2},"title":"Gang attacks homeowner, media solicits donations for fallen gang members, public laments gang member death","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"March 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by George Sand Some people out there, even our regular readers, get squeamish when we liken police to gang members. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll stand by that analogy, which I elaborated upon in another article - Mostly, this comparison is based on the fact that police, like gangs claim ultimate dominion over a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6034,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=6034","url_meta":{"origin":1302,"position":3},"title":"“Man complains of ‘Orwellian police’ after tweet investigation” , BBC","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"June 7, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Considering that Harry Miller's shirt says \"man\" followed by the word's phonetic pronunciation, the BBC's headline may be slightly clever. A man has described police as using George Orwell's novel 1984 as an \"operating manual\" after he was investigated over alleged transphobic comments posted on social media. Quote from Miller:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Man_HarryMiller.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":807,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=807","url_meta":{"origin":1302,"position":4},"title":"Jennifer Chou: But their jobs are so hard","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"April 18, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The Swill Bucket is pleased to present another\u00c2\u00a0column by Jennifer Chou.\u00c2\u00a0Jenn received her B.A. in communications studies from UCLA and her J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law. 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