{"id":1409,"date":"2012-03-01T17:22:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T01:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2012-07-03T16:26:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T23:26:09","slug":"gang-attacks-homeowner-media-solicits-donations-for-fallen-gang-members-public-laments-gang-member-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1409","title":{"rendered":"Gang attacks homeowner, media solicits donations for fallen gang members, public laments gang member death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by George Sand<\/em><\/p>\n<p>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 &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mostly, this comparison is based on the fact that police, like gangs claim ultimate dominion over a particular territory. They stake out these particular territories, and demand \u00e2\u20ac\u0153protection money\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for reasons mostly out of the control of local residents. If their demands are not met, they resort to violence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>They swear an oath of\u00c2\u00a0 loyalty to each other, and will cover up for each other\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gruesome crimes at the expense of good sense and morality. Officers have purposely failed to take reports, covered up evidence, and even turned a blind eye to sexual battery and torture by their fellow gang-members (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copblock.org\/1014\/im-not-biased-i-just-question-authority-when-they-have-lied-to-me-repeatedly\/\">here<\/a>). Those who do not abide by the code of loyalty are ostracized or otherwise punished (see examples <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copblock.org\/2010\/blue-wall-of-silence\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copblock.org\/1042\/think-twice-before-calling-the-police-the-chrisman-shooting\/\">here<\/a>). They even have a gang color \u00e2\u20ac\u201c blue.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.copblock.org\/11472\/gang-attacks-homeowner-media-solicits-donations-for-fallen-gang-members-public-laments-gang-member-death\/\">(Read entire article here)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; Mostly, this comparison is based on the fact that police, like gangs claim ultimate dominion over a particular territory. They stake out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}