{"id":460,"date":"2020-06-07T16:13:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T23:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=460"},"modified":"2020-07-02T16:13:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T23:13:37","slug":"confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-officer-a-cab-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/06\/07\/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-officer-a-cab-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop &#8211; Officer A. Cab &#8211; Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I was a police officer for nearly ten years and I was a bastard. We all were.<br \/>\nThis essay has been kicking around in my head for years now and I\u2019ve never felt confident enough to write it. It\u2019s a time in my life I\u2019m ashamed of. It\u2019s a time that I hurt people and, through inaction, allowed others to be hurt. It\u2019s a time that I acted as a violent agent of capitalism and white supremacy. Under the guise of public safety, I personally ruined people\u2019s lives but in so doing, made the public no safer\u2026 so did the family members and close friends of mine who also bore the badge alongside me.<br \/>\nBut enough is enough.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@OfcrACab\/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop &#8211; Officer A. Cab &#8211; Medium<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a police officer for nearly ten years and I was a bastard. We all were. This essay has been kicking around in my head for years now and I\u2019ve never felt confident enough to write it. It\u2019s a time in my life I\u2019m ashamed of. It\u2019s a time that I hurt people and, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/06\/07\/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-officer-a-cab-medium\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}