{"id":345846,"date":"2021-10-12T13:05:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T13:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=193592"},"modified":"2021-10-12T13:05:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T13:05:25","slug":"business-improvement-districts-quietly-privatize-the-policing-of-public-space-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/10\/12\/business-improvement-districts-quietly-privatize-the-policing-of-public-space-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBusiness Improvement Districts\u201d Quietly Privatize The Policing Of Public Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In hundreds of urban centers, invisible borders designate zones wherein local governments have granted control of the commons to private interests. Within the bounds of a BID, its corporate operators are empowered to\u00a0contract for-profit companies\u00a0to clean streets,\u00a0make aesthetic and tourism upgrades\u00a0and, more insidiously, enforce \u201csecurity\u201d in collaboration with police.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/business-improvement-districts-quietly-privatize-the-policing-of-public-space\/\">\u201cBusiness Improvement Districts\u201d Quietly Privatize The Policing Of Public Space<\/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\/business-improvement-districts-quietly-privatize-the-policing-of-public-space\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In hundreds of urban centers, invisible borders designate zones wherein local governments have granted control of the commons to private interests. Within the bounds of a BID, its corporate operators are empowered to\u00a0contract for-profit companies\u00a0to cl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5722,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345846"}],"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=345846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346752,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345846\/revisions\/346752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}