{"id":89,"date":"2005-10-14T08:53:49","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T16:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/10\/14\/traffic-cops\/"},"modified":"2010-06-13T18:27:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T02:27:36","slug":"traffic-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/10\/14\/traffic-cops\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic Cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More evidence that people strongly overestimate the need for government.<br \/>\nThe latest issue of Reason magazine has a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keepmedia.com\/pubs\/Reason\/2005\/11\/01\/1002853?extID=10026\">report<\/a> (based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motoring.co.za\/index.php?fArticleId=2639862\">this report in Motoring<\/a>) that Ukraine fired all of the country&#8217;s traffic cops, and preliminary evidence indicates that the predictions of increased traffic accidents were false.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More evidence that people strongly overestimate the need for government. The latest issue of Reason magazine has a nice report (based on this report in Motoring) that Ukraine fired all of the country&#8217;s traffic cops, and preliminary evidence indicates that the predictions of increased traffic accidents were false.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p80O1l-1r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}