{"id":93,"date":"2005-12-29T09:12:36","date_gmt":"2005-12-29T17:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=93"},"modified":"2005-12-29T09:12:49","modified_gmt":"2005-12-29T17:12:49","slug":"thursday-december-29-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2005\/12\/29\/thursday-december-29-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday &#8211; December 29, 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&#038;p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2005_12_29_uprising.MP3&#038;m=1\"> <img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> Listen to the show<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Exposing the Dark Side of American Policing<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Norm Stamper, former Seattle Police Chief, author of &#8220;Breaking Rank: A Top Cop&#8217;s Expose of the Dark Side of American Policing&#8221;. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=left width=20% src=\"http:\/\/nationbooks.org\/books\/images\/stamper_big.jpg\" alt=\"Breaking Rank\" \/>Norm Stamper is the former chief of the Seattle Police Force and deputy chief of the San Diego Police Department. His book is entitled, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A Top Cop&#8217;s Expose of the Dark Side of American Policing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and features provocatively titled chapters such as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why White Cops Kill Black Men\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sexual Predators in Uniform.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d According to Stamper, cops can be racist, corrupt, overly militaristic, and chauvinist, but yet are also made up of brave and good men and women. He oversaw the Seattle police response to the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization and eventually resigned over the controversies surrounding that event. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Sonali\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Subversive Thought for the Day: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>P. G.  Wodehouse once said, &#8220;Being a policeman warps a man&#8217;s mind&#8230; There seems no way of avoiding this.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to the show Exposing the Dark Side of American Policing Norm Stamper, former Seattle Police Chief, author of &#8220;Breaking Rank: A Top Cop&#8217;s Expose of the Dark Side of American Policing&#8221;. Norm Stamper is the former chief of the Seattle Police Force and deputy chief of the San Diego Police Department. His book is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","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=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}