{"id":1857,"date":"2010-06-03T13:32:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T18:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2010-06-03T13:32:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T18:32:56","slug":"quote-of-the-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=1857","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2010\/06\/03\/do-police-have-a-legitimate-expectation-of-privacy-in-public-performance-of-duty\/\">Police do not have an expectation of privacy in their public encounters  with the citizenry.\u00a0 In fact, they should have instead an expectation of  public <em>accountability<\/em> for the performance of that work.\u00a0 When a  free people give police the authority to enforce our laws and to have  the leeway to commit acts of violence in doing so, that is a trust that  requires oversight and accountability.\u00a0 The vast majority of police  officers enforce the law in a lawful, professional manner, but some  abuse their positions of trust.\u00a0 Removing oversight makes it more  difficult for the professionals to do their job and easier for the small  number of abusers to bully others into following their example.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The problem isn&#8217;t that this needs to be said. The problem is that it isn&#8217;t being said where it needs to be said; in a 9-0 decision by the United States Supreme Court, written by Antonin Scalia.<\/p>\n<p>(Hattip: <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/instapundit\/100527\/\">Insta<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police do not have an expectation of privacy in their public encounters with the citizenry.\u00a0 In fact, they should have instead an expectation of public accountability for the performance of that work.\u00a0 When a free people give police the authority to enforce our laws and to have the leeway to commit acts of violence in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1858,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}