{"id":1581043,"date":"2024-03-29T20:57:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T20:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/progressive.org\/latest\/when-you-dont-need-a-cop-ervin-20240329\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T20:57:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T20:57:38","slug":"when-you-dont-need-a-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/29\/when-you-dont-need-a-cop\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Don\u2019t Need a Cop"},"content":{"rendered":"Myths about \u201cdefunding the police\u201d don\u2019t recognize that in many cases a situation is better handled by other trained professionals, writes contributor Mike Ervin.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/progressive.org\/latest\/when-you-dont-need-a-cop-ervin-20240329\/\">The Progressive \u2014 A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myths about \u201cdefunding the police\u201d don\u2019t recognize that in many cases a situation is better handled by other trained professionals, writes contributor Mike Ervin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1581043"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581196,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581043\/revisions\/1581196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}