{"id":8769,"date":"2018-12-12T20:52:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T20:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=8769"},"modified":"2018-12-13T01:26:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T01:26:35","slug":"the-thick-blue-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=8769","title":{"rendered":"The Thick Blue Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8775 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Court-Painter-Thick-Blue-line-x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Court-Painter-Thick-Blue-line-x.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Court-Painter-Thick-Blue-line-x-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Court-Painter-Thick-Blue-line-x-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a much heralded position of solidarity seldom seen across the Great Dominion : Police officers,Police unions,Police associations,Police oversight boards and Police Commissions have collectively apologized for &#8220;the extremely rare and totally unacceptable practice of inadvertently\u00a0<em>carding<\/em>\u00a0white people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release regarding this subject it was explained that <em>cardin<\/em>g was meant for people of colour and &#8220;in no way can there be justification for <em>carding<\/em> whites. <em>Carding<\/em> was designed as a special tool in the law enforcement toolbox for public safety and any diminishment of its targeted purpose and specialness to our citizens of colour is taken very seriously and will not be tolerated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8774 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Court-Painter-Thick-Blue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Court-Painter-Thick-Blue.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Court-Painter-Thick-Blue-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Court-Painter-Thick-Blue-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Further training for all organizational levels of policing to assure <em>carding<\/em> remains pure in its intention is presently being workshopped in the precincts ,commission boardrooms and squad cars of the nation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8773 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Court-Painter-Thick-Blue-Line.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Court-Painter-Thick-Blue-Line.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Court-Painter-Thick-Blue-Line-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Court-Painter-Thick-Blue-Line-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Court Painter was asked how he determines the thickness of the blue line.&#8221;At minimum it has to be as thick as a brick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a much heralded position of solidarity seldom seen across the Great Dominion : Police officers,Police unions,Police associations,Police oversight boards and Police Commissions have collectively apologized for &#8220;the extremely rare and totally unacceptable practice of inadvertently\u00a0carding\u00a0white people&#8221;. In a news release regarding this subject it was explained that carding was meant for people of colour &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=8769\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Thick Blue Line&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8769"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13047,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions\/13047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}