{"id":547,"date":"2012-05-10T18:38:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T18:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/?p=547"},"modified":"2013-04-05T18:17:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T18:17:21","slug":"professor-many-blacks-see-cops-as-killers-behind-the-badge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"Professor: Many Blacks See Cops As \u2018Killers Behind The Badge\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\">A University of Florida professor recently published an article in \u201c<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\">Law and History Review<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\">\u201d from Cambridge Journals, which asserts that the racist and oppressive history of police officers in New Orleans have many Blacks viewing cops as \u201c<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\">killers behind the badge<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\">.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The research was done using police and newspaper reports between the 20-year time period, focusing solely on the deaths of civilians at the hands of the police. During this time, New Orleans was notoriously crime-ridden and violent, and violent offenders, Black and White, were dealt swift justice that often resulted in death. Blacks were killed at four times the rate of White suspects, with Professor Adler pointing out some facts that possibly contributed to the high numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A University of Florida professor recently published an article in \u201cLaw and History Review\u201d from Cambridge Journals, which asserts that the racist and oppressive history of police officers in New Orleans have many Blacks viewing cops as \u201ckillers behind the badge.\u201d The research was done using police and newspaper reports between the 20-year time period,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[58,63,59,56,62,60,55,7,61,57],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-true-talk-on-politics","tag-black-and-white","tag-cambridge-journals","tag-florida-professor","tag-history-of-police-officers","tag-oppressive-history","tag-professor-adler","tag-professor-many-blacks-see-cops-as-killers-behind-the-badge","tag-racist-america","tag-time-period","tag-university-of-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}