{"id":7211,"date":"2012-05-08T21:33:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T02:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7211"},"modified":"2012-05-08T21:33:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T02:33:46","slug":"groping_at_straws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/05\/groping_at_straws.html","title":{"rendered":"Groping At Straws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it really that easy to get tagged not only as a serial groper but a dapper one at that on such flimsy evidence? In Bloomberg and Kelly&#8217;s New York, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/manhattan\/wrong_guy_groper_RLb6OnudTBh2yP9VWE8uRJ\">yes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>His nightmare started on April 12, when two detectives showed up at his Park Slope apartment asking him questions about groping attacks on women in fancy Manhattan neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>Someone who knew [the suspect] called the NYPD&#8217;s anonymous Crimestoppers tip line and told them that a surveillance video image of the attacker looked like him.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course shitty police work can be fixed but <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2012\/04\/well-dressed-groper-arrested-and-charged-nyc.html\">first impressions are forever<\/a>. This guy seems remarkably cheerful for someone who was accused of being this close to being a rapist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it really that easy to get tagged not only as a serial groper but a dapper one at that on such flimsy evidence? In Bloomberg and Kelly&#8217;s New York, yes: His nightmare started on April 12, when two detectives showed up at his Park Slope apartment asking him questions about groping attacks on women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_horrible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7212,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211\/revisions\/7212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}