{"id":3324,"date":"2015-06-08T08:21:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T12:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2015-06-09T09:14:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T13:14:50","slug":"explainers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/08\/explainers\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Explainers on bail and and private police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, comedian John Oliver did a great segment last night on bail (NSFW):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IS5mwymTIJU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And on that topic, don&#8217;t miss Daniel Kopf&#8217;s article from two weeks ago on Priceonomics: <a href=\"http:\/\/priceonomics.com\/americas-peculiar-bail-system\/\">America&#8217;s Peculiar Bail System<\/a>. (Dan is a member of our <a href=\"\/internships.html\">Young Professionals Network<\/a>. Stay tuned for the results of his research collaborations with us.)<\/p>\n<p>And on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/shows\/marketplace\/marketplace-friday-june-5-2015\">Friday, Sally Herships on Marketplace<\/a> did a great piece on the role, number and challenges of private police in the U.S. (Spoiler: There are more private police in the U.S. than public police, which raises troubling questions about who benefits when most policing isn&#8217;t in the public interest. Her story starts 13 minutes in.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Oliver &#038; Dan Kopf explain bail; and Sally Herships on Marketplace explains the growth of private police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":["post-3324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}