{"id":25817,"date":"2021-04-29T02:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/the-problem-with-law-enforcement-national-park-rangers#id29563"},"modified":"2021-04-29T02:56:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T02:56:00","slug":"the-problem-with-law-enforcement-national-park-rangers-theyre-not-seen-as-real-cops-a-misperception-that-can-end-in-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/the-problem-with-law-enforcement-national-park-rangers-theyre-not-seen-as-real-cops-a-misperception-that-can-end-in-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with law-enforcement National Park rangers: They\u2019re not seen as \u201creal\u201d cops\u2014a misperception that can end in violence."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>In December 2020, a ranger at Petroglyph National Monument, in New Mexico, tased a man who provided a false name when stopped for walking off-trail in the park. Once again, the Park Service concluded that the ranger&rsquo;s actions were reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2422625\/nps-ranger-shooting-gage-lorentz\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; Outside<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/the-problem-with-law-enforcement-national-park-rangers\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        In December 2020, a ranger at Petroglyph National Monument, in New Mexico, tased a man who provided a false name when stopped for walking off-trail in the park. Once again, the Park Service concluded that the ranger&amp;rsquo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25818,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25817\/revisions\/25818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}