{"id":14399,"date":"2011-10-29T19:30:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14399"},"modified":"2011-10-29T19:30:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T02:30:07","slug":"open-thread-so-thats-why-people-become-cops-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14399","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread, so that&#8217;s why people become cops edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read this story on <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/12\/forty-texas-cops-rob-a-strip-c\">Reason Magazine<\/a> &#8211; a typically appalling police forfeiture story in which cops raided a strip club for drugs and, finding no drugs, confiscated (without receipt) cash, computers, computer pads, and the manager&#8217;s wallet. But what made me crack up is the ad that accompanied the story.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/40-texas-cops-rob-a-strip-club.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"40-texas-cops-rob-a-strip-club\" width=\"488\" height=\"847\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>(Description: The headline of the story reads &#8220;40 Texas Cops Rob a Strip Club.&#8221; The ad at the bottom of the page shows a boyish, smiling police officer, with the headline &#8220;Become a Police Officer.&#8221;)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s call this an open thread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this story on Reason Magazine &#8211; a typically appalling police forfeiture story in which cops raided a strip club for drugs and, finding no drugs, confiscated (without receipt) cash, computers, computer pads, and the manager&#8217;s wallet. But what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14399\">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":[135,50,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crossposted-on-tada","category-link-farms","category-prisons-and-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14401,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14399\/revisions\/14401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}