{"id":1891,"date":"2011-11-15T07:59:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T15:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2011\/11\/safety_and_sanitation_oh_yeah\/"},"modified":"2012-08-25T13:39:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T17:39:13","slug":"safety_and_sanitation_oh_yeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2011\/11\/safety_and_sanitation_oh_yeah.html","title":{"rendered":"Health and Safety . . . Oh Yeah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the pretext for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/16\/nyregion\/police-begin-clearing-zuccotti-park-of-protesters.html?_r=1&#038;hp\">cop sweep<\/a> of OWS protestors at Zuccotti Park. Or as NYC&#8217;s billionaire mayor claims, that&#8217;s the reason for the eviction by what he called &#8220;the world&#8217;s greatest police department.&#8221; It&#8217;s the same police force <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/03\/nyregion\/experts-say-ny-police-dept-isnt-policing-itself.html?ref=opinion\">recently convicted of planting drugs and currently charged with smuggling guns, armed robbery, making false arrests, and massive ticket-fixing<\/a>. <em>Falsis in unum, falsis in omnibus<\/em> &#8212; false in one thing, false in all things.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BKTNxfjsTnQ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt title=\"CLICK for video of Zuccotti Park Police Sweep.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/assets_c\/2011\/11\/PoliceEvictionNotice-thumb-320x412-20866.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"412\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Postscript:<\/strong> &#8220;You don&#8217;t need a metaphor to describe the horrors that just happened &#8212; but if 5,000 wonderful, radical, donated books being destroyed by the NYPD and thrown into the back of a garbage truck to be ground into landfill isn&#8217;t a metaphor, I don&#8217;t know what is.&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annalekasmiller.com\/2011\/11\/15\/dispatch-teargassed-while-tweeting\/\">Anna Lekas Miller<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the pretext for the cop sweep of OWS protestors at Zuccotti Park. Or as NYC&#8217;s billionaire mayor claims, that&#8217;s the reason for the eviction by what he called &#8220;the world&#8217;s greatest police department.&#8221; It&#8217;s the same police force recently convicted of planting drugs and currently charged with smuggling guns, armed robbery, making false arrests, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-political-culture","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-uv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}