{"id":9851,"date":"2016-03-30T08:47:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T13:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=9851"},"modified":"2016-03-30T08:47:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T13:47:36","slug":"suspended-wyckoff-nj-police-chief-stands-by-statement-that-racial-profiling-is-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/suspended-wyckoff-nj-police-chief-stands-by-statement-that-racial-profiling-is-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspended Wyckoff NJ Police Chief stands by statement that racial profiling is necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9852\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9852\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/bergen\/index.ssf\/2016\/03\/wyckoff_police_chief_steps_down_as_state_investiga.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9852\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-30-at-09.40.42-300x285.jpg\" alt=\"Chief Ben Fox letter to officers\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-30-at-09.40.42-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-30-at-09.40.42-225x214.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-30-at-09.40.42-768x730.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-30-at-09.40.42.jpg 1022w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: NJ.com via the ACLU<\/figcaption><\/figure>New Jersey Police Chief Benjamin Fox was suspended on 22 March 2016 for the statements made in a 2014 email to his staff which specifically \u2013\u00a0and in precise language \u2013 instructs Wyckoff officers to continue to &#8220;check out suspicious black people in white neighborhoods.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Fox claims that his statements aren&#8217;t racist and don&#8217;t promote racial profiling. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/bergen\/index.ssf\/2016\/03\/wyckoff_police_chief_steps_down_as_state_investiga.html\">Read the NJ.com<\/a> article, let me know what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey Police Chief Benjamin Fox was suspended on 22 March 2016 for the statements made in a 2014 email to his staff which specifically \u2013\u00a0and in precise language \u2013 instructs Wyckoff officers to continue to &#8220;check out suspicious black people in white neighborhoods.&#8221; But Fox claims that his statements aren&#8217;t racist and don&#8217;t promote &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/suspended-wyckoff-nj-police-chief-stands-by-statement-that-racial-profiling-is-necessary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Suspended Wyckoff NJ Police Chief stands by statement that racial profiling is necessary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1082,5,563],"tags":[1101,2346,291,2347],"class_list":["post-9851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-dei","category-government-trade","category-justice","tag-police","tag-profiling","tag-racial-justice","tag-wyckoff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9851"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9856,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9851\/revisions\/9856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}