{"id":183367,"date":"2014-12-15T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T11:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/15\/linkage-300\/"},"modified":"2014-12-15T06:29:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T11:29:00","slug":"linkage-300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/15\/linkage-300\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2014\/nov\/20\/why-innocent-people-plead-guilty\/\">Why Innocent People Plead Guilty<\/a> (<i>The New York Review of Books<\/i>) The author, Jed S. Rakoff is as Senior Status Federal Judge<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/brain-behavior\/2014\/11\/electric-shock-study-suggests-wed-rather-hurt-ourselves-others\">Electric shock study suggests we&#8217;d rather hurt ourselves than others<\/a>(<i>Science\/AAAS<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/investigates\/special-report\/scotus\/\">The Echo Chamber<\/a> (<i>Reuters<\/i>) Unsurprisingly, about 66 well connected lawyers dominate the cases the Supreme Court takes.&nbsp; You have to figure that there is a lot of back-scratching going on between the lawyers and the Justices.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/crime\/2014\/12\/edward_banfield_the_racist_classist_origins_of_broken_windows_policing.html\">The racist, classist origins of broken windows policing<\/a> (<i>Slate<\/i>) The person most responsible for the idea, James Q. Wilson, specifically said that it <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/broken-window-theory-of-financial.html\">should never be applied to things like white collar crimes<\/a>, as near as I can figure out, because he did not want it applied to white people.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/Police-often-provoke-protest-violence-UC-5704918.php\">Police often provoke protest violence, UC researchers find<\/a> (<i>SFGate <\/i>) Not a big surprise here.&nbsp; Police (and the St. Louis County prosecutor) have been deliberately provoking protesters to justify brutal tactics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>John Cleese on Stupidity:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wvVPdyYeaQU\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Innocent People Plead Guilty (The New York Review of Books) The author, Jed S. Rakoff is as Senior Status Federal Judge Electric shock study suggests we&#8217;d rather hurt ourselves than others(Science\/AAAS) The Echo Chamber (Reuters) Unsurprisingly, about 66 well connected lawyers dominate the cases the Supreme Court takes.&nbsp; You have to figure that there &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1014],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}