{"id":7687,"date":"2012-11-06T10:42:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T17:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=7687"},"modified":"2012-11-06T10:42:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T17:42:21","slug":"why-firing-a-bad-cop-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/why-firing-a-bad-cop-is-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Firing a Bad Cop is Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Unlike a member of the public, the officer gets a \u201ccooling off\u201d period before he has to respond to any questions. Unlike a member of the public, the officer under investigation is privy to the names of his complainants and their testimony against him before he is ever interrogated. Unlike a member of the public, the officer under investigation is to be interrogated \u201cat a reasonable hour,\u201d with a union member present. Unlike a member of the public, the officer can only be questioned by one person during his interrogation. Unlike a member of the public, the officer can be interrogated only \u201cfor reasonable periods,\u201d which \u201cshall be timed to allow for such personal necessities and rest periods as are reasonably necessary.\u201d Unlike a member of the public, the officer under investigation cannot be \u201cthreatened with disciplinary action\u201d at any point during his interrogation. If he is threatened with punishment, whatever he says following the threat cannot be used against him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When the police argue that the interrogation techniques they use produce the truth, you have to wonder why such things aren\u2019t good for finding the truth when it comes to other police\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike a member of the public, the officer gets a \u201ccooling off\u201d period before he has to respond to any questions. Unlike a member of the public, the officer under investigation is privy to the names of his complainants and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/why-firing-a-bad-cop-is-hard\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7688,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687\/revisions\/7688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}