{"id":2216,"date":"2020-02-16T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2020-02-16T14:00:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T14:00:51","slug":"undercover-cops-hired-118-handymen-then-arrested-them-all-for-not-having-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2216","title":{"rendered":"Undercover Cops Hired 118 Handymen, Then Arrested Them All for Not Having Licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/tag\/occupational-licensing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Occupational licensing<\/a>, whether it&#8217;s of contractors or hair braiders, is often much more about protecting incumbent businesses and government licensing revenue than it is about safeguarding the welfare of consumers.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Operation House Hunters is a perfect illustration of this, with cops going to great lengths to manufacture licensing law violations that either wouldn&#8217;t have happened or wouldn&#8217;t have produced unsatisfied parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The more effort law enforcement spends entrapping handymen, the fewer personnel and resources they have to devote to deterring other, more serious crimes. &#8220;These sting operations rake in big money in fines and court costs,&#8221; Sammis says. &#8220;Catching real criminals actually committing a crime is much harder.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"z3GyKNB7EL\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/02\/05\/undercover-cops-hired-118-handymen-then-arrested-them-all-for-not-having-licenses\/\">Undercover Cops Hired 118 Handymen, Then Arrested Them All for Not Having Licenses<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Undercover Cops Hired 118 Handymen, Then Arrested Them All for Not Having Licenses&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/02\/05\/undercover-cops-hired-118-handymen-then-arrested-them-all-for-not-having-licenses\/embed\/#?secret=QCQttdW0Vn#?secret=z3GyKNB7EL\" data-secret=\"z3GyKNB7EL\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Occupational licensing, whether it&#8217;s of contractors or hair braiders, is often much more about protecting incumbent businesses and government licensing revenue than it is about safeguarding the welfare of consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Operation House Hunters is a perfect illustration of this, with cops going to great lengths to manufacture licensing law violations that either wouldn&#8217;t have happened or wouldn&#8217;t have produced unsatisfied parties.<\/p>\n<p>The more effort law enforcement spends entrapping handymen, the fewer personnel and resources they have to devote to deterring other, more serious crimes. &#8220;These sting operations rake in big money in fines and court costs,&#8221; Sammis says. &#8220;Catching real criminals actually committing a crime is much harder.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[448,447],"class_list":["post-2216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-licensing","tag-occupational-licensing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions\/2217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}