{"id":198762,"date":"2007-10-11T23:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/11\/war-on-terror-means-more-crime-in-us\/"},"modified":"2007-10-11T23:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T04:06:00","slug":"war-on-terror-means-more-crime-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/11\/war-on-terror-means-more-crime-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"War On Terror Means More Crime in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Bratton, current LAPD chief, and the man who cleaned up New Yorek (not Guiliani), is saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/58693034-7757-11dc-9de8-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1\">the federal government is abandoning its commitment to fighting crime in the United States and diverting those resources to the &#8220;Total War Against Terror<\/a>&#8220;<sup>*<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>\u201cThe federal government is a one-eyed Cyclops \u2013 it can only focus on one thing at a time,\u201d said Mr Bratton, in an interview with the Financial Times. \u201cWe have to fight a two-front war on terrorism internationally and on crime at home. You cannot fight terrorism at the expense of 16,000 homicides a year.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>FWIW, that is 5 times the total deaths from 911.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><sup>*<\/sup>Check out the acronym.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Bratton, current LAPD chief, and the man who cleaned up New Yorek (not Guiliani), is saying that the federal government is abandoning its commitment to fighting crime in the United States and diverting those resources to the &#8220;Total War Against Terror&#8220;*. \u201cThe federal government is a one-eyed Cyclops \u2013 it can only focus on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052,972,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-justice","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198762"}],"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=198762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}