{"id":3059,"date":"2008-10-08T07:54:17","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T02:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/?p=3059"},"modified":"2008-10-08T07:54:17","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T02:24:17","slug":"me-in-pragati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200810\/me-in-pragati\/","title":{"rendered":"Me in Pragati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have an article up in the <a href=\"http:\/\/pragati.nationalinterest.in\/2008\/10\/october-2008-after-the-bailout\/\">October 2008 issue<\/a> of Pragati. There I argue against <a href=\"http:\/\/noenthuda.com\/blog\/?p=904\">Karthik&#8217;s post<\/a>\u00a0on statistics and terrorism. I argue that if we give a &#8220;free hand&#8221; to our police to fight terrorism without insisting that they obtain convictions from courts, we will not only end up with too many innocent victims, but also too few genuine terrorists. This was supposed to run in a debate format, with an article from Karthik and a response from me, but Karthik asked for a bailout at the last minute, which left only my article standing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an article up in the October 2008 issue of Pragati. There I argue against Karthik&#8217;s post\u00a0on statistics and terrorism. I argue that if we give a &#8220;free hand&#8221; to our police to fight terrorism without insisting that they obtain convictions from courts, we will not only end up with too many innocent victims, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[72,189,54,188],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3069,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions\/3069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}