{"id":11840,"date":"2012-10-23T18:50:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T01:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=11840"},"modified":"2012-10-23T18:50:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T01:50:58","slug":"snitching-a-model-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/23\/snitching-a-model-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Snitching: a model case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snitching: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2012\/10\/informant_claims_nypd_paid_him.html\" target=\"_blank\">This is how it works<\/a>. This is a classic case of how cops twist people into doing their will. <\/p>\n<p>Naive young kid in trouble with the law. Scared. He&#8217;s maybe not the brightest bulb (though he may think he is). Cops &#8220;befriend&#8221; him and magically make his &#8220;crime&#8221; go away. Cops pay him &#8212; quite a lot for a part-time job for a kid. He&#8217;s so eager to &#8220;earn&#8221; the money and please his handlers that he persuades himself that he&#8217;s a &#8220;hero.&#8221; SO eager to please that he starts twisting and exaggerating the &#8220;evidence.&#8221; Classic. Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>Except that this kid grew a conscience.<\/p>\n<p>(H\/T D for the article)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snitching: This is how it works. This is a classic case of how cops twist people into doing their will. Naive young kid in trouble with the law. Scared. He&#8217;s maybe not the brightest bulb (though he may think he is). Cops &#8220;befriend&#8221; him and magically make his &#8220;crime&#8221; go away. Cops pay him &#8212; quite a lot for a part-time job for a kid. He&#8217;s so eager to &#8220;earn&#8221; the money and please his handlers that he persuades himself that he&#8217;s a &#8220;hero.&#8221; SO eager to please that he starts twisting and exaggerating the &#8220;evidence.&#8221; Classic. Absolutely. Except that&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/23\/snitching-a-model-case\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Snitching: a model case<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}