{"id":200505,"date":"2021-03-21T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/03\/21\/this-is-kind-of-horrifying\/"},"modified":"2021-03-21T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T22:58:00","slug":"this-is-kind-of-horrifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/03\/21\/this-is-kind-of-horrifying\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Kind of Horrifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a story about how a candidate for Erie County Sheriff (Buffalo, NY), <a href=\"https:\/\/buffalonews.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/sheriff-candidate-got-warrant-for-raid-that-ended-in-dog-s-death-110k-settlement\/article_24852b76-8682-11eb-a5a9-d3be9913ce4e.html\">completely screwed up a drug raid and the warrant he swore out to allow it<\/a>, we have the following testimony from another member of his team:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">[Detective Joseph M.] <\/span>Cook had shot other dogs in drug raids. He did not dispute during the deposition that he had shot 26 dogs over roughly a three-year period.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, he shot a dog about once every six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The owner of the job got a $110,000 settlement.&nbsp; Nothing wrong here, I guess.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Support your local police.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a story about how a candidate for Erie County Sheriff (Buffalo, NY), completely screwed up a drug raid and the warrant he swore out to allow it, we have the following testimony from another member of his team: [Detective Joseph M.] Cook had shot other dogs in drug raids. He did not dispute during &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,972,1041,1132,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-justice","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-pets","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200505"}],"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=200505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}