{"id":142513,"date":"2014-12-09T15:02:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T15:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=142513"},"modified":"2014-12-09T15:02:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T15:02:33","slug":"ten-facts-know-american-police-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/ten-facts-know-american-police-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Facts You Should Know About the American Police State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are ten frightening facts about the police state that you need to know about:<\/p>\n

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  1. More than 500 American<\/a> citizens have died after being tased, a device considered \u201cnon-lethal.\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. The yearly cost of the War on Drugs to the Americantaxpayer<\/a> is about $40 billion. The estimated cost to end hunger worldwide is $30 billion yearly.<\/li>\n
  3. There are more than 80,000<\/a> military raids conducted by police every year in the United States.<\/li>\n
  4. There are roughly 2.3 million people locked up in theUnited States<\/a> with another 5 million on probation or parole. The overwhelming majority are for non-violent crimes.<\/li>\n
  5. UNICOR, an establishment inside the US Federal Prison System uses its confined pool of labor to produce war goods<\/a> for the US military.<\/li>\n
  6. In 36%<\/a> of US SWAT raids, no contraband of any kind is found after the officers risk everyone\u2019s life and engage in reckless actions that cost lives.<\/li>\n
  7. An average London resident is recorded over 300 times a day<\/a> by Big Brother\u2019s video surveillance apparatus.<\/li>\n
  8. The only nation to maintain a higher incarceration<\/a> rate than the United States is Germany\u2026 under the Nazis.<\/li>\n
  9. 97% of reported<\/a> police brutality victims are people of color.<\/li>\n
  10. Every 98 minutes<\/a>, a cop kills a family pet. There have been no recorded<\/a> officer deaths from a dog in last decade.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This piece<\/a> was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Here are ten frightening facts about the police state that you need to know about: More than 500 American citizens have died after being tased, a device considered \u201cnon-lethal.\u201d The yearly cost of the War on Drugs to the Americantaxpayer is about $40 billion. The estimated cost to end hunger worldwide is $30 billion yearly. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-142513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}