{"id":167376,"date":"2021-05-17T13:37:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T13:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=185821"},"modified":"2021-05-17T13:37:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T13:37:28","slug":"how-portland-police-came-to-be-armed-with-military-grade-rifles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/17\/how-portland-police-came-to-be-armed-with-military-grade-rifles\/","title":{"rendered":"How Portland Police Came to Be Armed With Military-Grade Rifles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AR-15 rifle operators outnumber the 146 Portland officers who are certified to respond to mental health crises. For two decades, the Portland Police Bureau has armed its officers with AR-15 semi-automatic rifles, the result of a tough-on-crime policy that equipped officers with firearms most people associate more with mass shootings than community policing. In response [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/how-portland-police-came-to-be-armed-with-military-grade-rifles\/\">How Portland Police Came to Be Armed With Military-Grade Rifles<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/how-portland-police-came-to-be-armed-with-military-grade-rifles\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AR-15 rifle operators outnumber the 146 Portland officers who are certified to respond to mental health crises. For two decades, the Portland Police Bureau has armed its officers with AR-15 semi-automatic rifles, the result of a tough-on-crime policy t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5722,165,13,656,5724],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167376"}],"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\/5142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168525,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167376\/revisions\/168525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}