{"id":270,"date":"2007-11-01T12:27:05","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T16:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/11\/01\/police-trivia\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T12:27:05","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T16:27:05","slug":"police-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/11\/01\/police-trivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through the school paper, I&#8217;ve been talking with some of the supervisors in Campus Police. The guy I interviewed last night is the perfect person to interview: you ask him a question and he&#8217;ll talk for a while, so it&#8217;s not a round of 20 Questions. Some of what he said isn&#8217;t really relevant to the article I&#8217;m working on, but it&#8217;s really neat anyway.<\/p>\n<p>For example, would you ever have thought that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>Repeated studies have shown that an officer whose shoes aren&#8217;t shined is significantly more prone to being attacked? Not, presumably, because criminals secretly have major OCD, but because, on a subconscious level, it communicates that the officer is not at the top of their game. Or at least that&#8217;s what researchers have theorized.<\/li>\n    <li>If you&#8217;re an officer with a holstered gun, and someone comes at you with a knife, if they&#8217;re closer than 21 feet, they&#8217;re going to stab you before you can fire. This one surprises me a lot. Five feet and I could see them lunging at you. But 21 feet seems like an incredible distance. I remarked about how surprisingly high that was, and he told me that they periodically demonstrate it at the range: someone stands (well off to the side so they don&#8217;t get shot) 21 feet away, and, when a signal is giving, the officer pulls his gun and fires at a target, and the guy 21 feet away starts running. Every single time, he&#8217;s past the shooter before they get off their first shot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the school paper, I&#8217;ve been talking with some of the supervisors in Campus Police. The guy I interviewed last night is the perfect person to interview: you ask him a question and he&#8217;ll talk for a while, so it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/11\/01\/police-trivia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,15,21,24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hero-of-the-day","category-interesting","category-living","category-politics","category-rants-raves","category-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}