{"id":8761,"date":"2024-07-30T12:09:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T17:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/30\/san-antonio-police-spent-28000-on-officers-controversial-dubai-trip\/"},"modified":"2024-07-30T12:09:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T17:09:34","slug":"san-antonio-police-spent-28000-on-officers-controversial-dubai-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/30\/san-antonio-police-spent-28000-on-officers-controversial-dubai-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio police spent $28,000 on officers&#8217; controversial Dubai trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          The San Antonio Police Department provided administrative leave for officers who participated in a controversial competition in Dubai and even ponied up nearly $28,000 in salaries during the trip, according to records obtained by Texas Public Radio. In February, SAPD officers took part in Dubai&#8217;s UAE SWAT Challenge, an event that drew police units from roughly 70 countries, including some with well-documented records of human-rights violations.\u00a0Teams from Russia, China and the Philippines were among the participants, according to TPR. At the time, civil-rights advocates argued SAPD&#8217;s participation was troubling and sent the wrong message to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Antonio Police Department provided administrative leave for officers who participated in a controversial competition in Dubai and even ponied up nearly $28,000 in salaries during the trip, according to records obtained by Texas Public Radio. In February, SAPD officers took part in Dubai&#8217;s UAE SWAT Challenge, an event that drew police units from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}