{"id":11418,"date":"2009-02-23T18:33:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T18:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/britain_faces_summer_of_rage_police\/"},"modified":"2009-02-23T18:33:53","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T18:33:53","slug":"britain_faces_summer_of_rage_police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11418","title":{"rendered":"Britain faces summer of rage &#8211; police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are preparing for a &#8220;summer of rage&#8221; as victims of the economic downturn take to the streets to demonstrate against financial institutions, the Guardian has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s most senior police officer with responsibility for public order raised the spectre of a return of the riots of the 1980s, with people who have lost their jobs, homes or savings becoming &#8220;footsoldiers&#8221; in a wave of potentially violent mass protests.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent David Hartshorn, who heads the Metropolitan police&#8217;s public order branch, told the Guardian that middle-class individuals who would never have considered joining demonstrations may now seek to vent their anger through protests this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2009\/feb\/23\/police-civil-unrest-recession\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are preparing for a &#8220;summer of rage&#8221; as victims of the economic downturn take to the streets to demonstrate against financial institutions, the Guardian has learned. Britain&#8217;s most senior police officer with responsibility for public order raised the spectre<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11418\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,149,199,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}