{"id":9695,"date":"2021-01-18T10:35:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T10:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/18\/one-frightening-story-reveals-the-true-cost-of-rural-overpolicing\/"},"modified":"2021-01-18T10:35:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T10:35:54","slug":"one-frightening-story-reveals-the-true-cost-of-rural-overpolicing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/18\/one-frightening-story-reveals-the-true-cost-of-rural-overpolicing\/","title":{"rendered":"One frightening story reveals the true cost of rural overpolicing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ccb_single_video_player \" data-controls=\"1\" data-autohide=\"1\" data-fs=\"1\" data-theme=\"dark\" data-color=\"red\" data-iv_load_policy=\"3\" data-modestbranding=\"1\" data-rel=\"0\" data-showinfo=\"1\" data-autoplay=\"0\" data-disablekb=\"0\" data-nocookie=\"1\" data-aspect_ratio=\"16x9\" data-width=\"640\" data-video_position=\"above-content\" data-volume=\"100\" data-video_id=\"XnolUqPSD4Q\" style=\"width:640px; height:360px; max-width:100%;\"><!-- player container --><\/div>\n<p>A single dad goes camping with his kids and ends up in handcuffs; Then, PAR talks with Otto the Watchdog, a cop watcher who says he has been targeted for harassment for his First Amendment activities.<\/p>\n<p>PAR continues its ongoing reporting on an often-overlooked phenomenon: the growth of overpolicing and mass incarceration in rural communities. In this episode, we examine in detail the arrest of a Texas cop watcher who was charged for protesting police and has since been caught in a web of legal entanglements that reveal the expanding powers of small-town law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in every Thursday at 9:00 p.m. EST for new episodes of\u00a0PAR: <a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/police-accountability-report\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/therealnews.com\/police-accountability-report<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/18\/one-frightening-story-reveals-the-true-cost-of-rural-overpolicing\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A single dad goes camping with his kids and ends up in handcuffs; Then, PAR talks with Otto the Watchdog, a cop watcher who says he has been\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9696,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions\/9696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}