{"id":39420,"date":"2014-03-27T09:59:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T16:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=39420"},"modified":"2014-03-27T11:32:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T18:32:35","slug":"conversation-with-bob-olmsted-whistleblower-turned-la-sheriffs-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/03\/27\/conversation-with-bob-olmsted-whistleblower-turned-la-sheriffs-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Sheriff&#8217;s Whistleblower-turned Candidate Bob Olmsted Wants to Reform Jail System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140327Uprising\/2014_03_27_olmsted.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Bob Olmsted <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140327Uprising\/2014_03_27_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Host Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/bob_olmsted.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>On June 3rd Angelenos will have a chance to elect a new sheriff to replace Lee Baca who retired unexpectedly at the end of January. Baca left his position mired in scandal after 18 of his sheriff&#8217;s deputies indicted by the federal government after the FBI found serious prisoner and visitor abuses and a cover-up at the Men&#8217;s Central Jail, the largest jail system in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 7 candidates vying for the position of Sherriff are former Undersheriff Paul Tanaka who was accused by a county commission created following the scandal as having played a major role in maintaining abusive jail conditions. Also running for the position is former LA Sheriff&#8217;s Commander Bob Olmsted who blew the whistle on prisoner abuse by going to the FBI when Baca and Tanaka refused to address his concerns. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Bob Olmsted was a captain at Men&#8217;s County Jail, and became a whistleblower after he retired<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Olmsted&#8217;s campaign is online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobolmsted.com\">www.bobolmsted.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 3rd Angelenos will have a chance to elect a new sheriff to replace Lee Baca who retired unexpectedly at the end of January. Baca left his position mired in scandal after 18 of his sheriff&#8217;s deputies indicted by the federal government after the FBI found serious prisoner and visitor abuses and a cover-up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}