{"id":328,"date":"2006-02-23T14:38:06","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T21:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=328"},"modified":"2006-02-23T14:38:06","modified_gmt":"2006-02-23T21:38:06","slug":"why-are-there-so-many-cops-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/02\/23\/why-are-there-so-many-cops-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are there so many cops around?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"004091\"><\/a>Is it just me or is there a heavy police presence around downtown Portland today?<\/p>\n<p>Okay.  A bit less weak and unequivical a question: <i>Why is there such a heavy police presence around Portland today?<\/i>  Is there some sort of Meth Shut-down operation going on, or is this some joint operation with the Portland Business Alliance that makese the average consumer of downtown Portland feel safe?  (I don&#8217;t really understand the mentality; I guess it&#8217;s the &#8220;Conservative is a mugged liberal&#8221; thesis which brought into power Richard Nixon back in 1968.)<\/p>\n<p>Then again, there is the basic theory I have that the police presence is the same as it always is &#8212; it&#8217;s just that today, they&#8217;ve lurched out of the anonymous shadows to make themselves known to the public at large.  Like the vampires, so they go.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll throw my hands up in the air, and since I assume everything in this city leads back to Meth that it&#8217;s a Meth Crackdown Operation&#8230; whether I believe that or not.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; does anyone have a copy of the anarchist book <u>Our Enemies in Blue<\/u> that I can throw in my backpack in case they decide to stop me, and in the event that I&#8217;m just a glutton for punishment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me or is there a heavy police presence around downtown Portland today? Okay. A bit less weak and unequivical a question: Why is there such a heavy police presence around Portland today? Is there some sort of Meth Shut-down operation going on, or is this some joint operation with the Portland Business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}