{"id":9102,"date":"2014-12-04T16:17:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9102"},"modified":"2014-12-04T16:17:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:17:39","slug":"obamas-big-idea-lets-hike-federal-cop-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2014\/12\/obamas-big-idea-lets-hike-federal-cop-subsidies.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Obama&#8217;s Big Idea: Let&#8217;s Hike Federal Cop Subsidies&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Walter Olson at Cato:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Obama\u2019s newly announced police-reform package lives up to one\u2019s worst expectations. He flatly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2014\/dec\/01\/obama-white-house-summit-ferguson\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">refuses to curtail<\/a>\u00a0the federal police militarization program, instead calling for a big hike in federal spending on aid to local departments with the usual micromanaging strings attached. These strings will predictably make departments more responsive to Washington, and lobbies with clout there, as distinct from their local communities. As\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2014\/12\/01\/obama-ferguson-police-equipment\/19736081\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">USA Today<\/a><\/em>\u00a0notes, one powerful interest group has been especially active behind the scenes: \u201cThe Fraternal Order of Police, the nation\u2019s largest police union, has waged an intense lobbying campaign to keep the surplus equipment flowing,\u201d with its executive director specifically speaking up in favor of the transfer of armored vehicles and personnel carriers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/obamas-big-idea-step-federal-police-subsidies-will-make-things-worse\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Olson at Cato: President Obama\u2019s newly announced police-reform package lives up to one\u2019s worst expectations. He flatly refuses to curtail\u00a0the federal police militarization program, instead calling for a big hike in federal spending on aid to local departments with the usual micromanaging strings attached. These strings will predictably make departments more responsive to Washington, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[171,49,46,51],"class_list":["post-9102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abuse-of-power-comes-as-no-surprise","tag-obama-messiah","tag-our-enemy-the-state","tag-so-far-from-god-so-close-to-the-united-states"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Obama&#039;s Big Idea: Let&#039;s Hike Federal Cop Subsidies&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Walter Olson at Cato: President Obama\u2019s newly announced police-reform package lives up to one\u2019s worst expectations. 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