{"id":8692,"date":"2020-02-28T15:56:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T15:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/01\/democratic-candidates-spare-us-the-hypocrisy-on-criminal-justice\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:32:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:32:21","slug":"democratic-candidates-spare-us-the-hypocrisy-on-criminal-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/democratic-candidates-spare-us-the-hypocrisy-on-criminal-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic candidates: Spare us the hypocrisy on criminal justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last two Democratic debates were exercises in hypocrisy, Teresa Cosby, associate professor of politics and international affairs, wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/opinion\/commentary\/commentary-democratic-candidates-please-spare-us-the-hypocrisy\/article_84a83b58-5981-11ea-bafc-ef19ba1ccfe2.html\">an op-ed in the Charleston Post and Courier<\/a>. Tom, Pete, Amy, Joe and most of all Bernie had no right to point fingers at Michael Bloomberg and his \u201cstop-and-frisk\u201d policies during his 16 years as mayor of New York, she wrote. Only one candidate had a clean record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last two Democratic debates were exercises in hypocrisy, Teresa Cosby, associate professor of politics and international affairs, wrote in an op-ed in the Charleston Post and Courier. Tom, Pete, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":8492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[211,241,245,244],"class_list":["post-8692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","tag-2020-election","tag-american-politics","tag-politics","tag-presidential-primary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}