{"id":100,"date":"2020-05-12T02:37:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T02:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/?p=100"},"modified":"2020-05-13T06:47:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T06:47:26","slug":"violence-against-puerto-rican-individuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/2020\/05\/12\/violence-against-puerto-rican-individuals\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence Against Puerto Rican Individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-102\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-11-at-10.35.44-PM-300x85.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-11-at-10.35.44-PM-300x85.png 300w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-11-at-10.35.44-PM-1024x291.png 1024w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-11-at-10.35.44-PM-768x218.png 768w, https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-11-at-10.35.44-PM.png 1123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Puerto Ricans in Kensington are especially vulnerable to violence. Racial tensions in Philadelphia have led to &#8220;Puerto Rican territory&#8221; being viewed as a &#8220;neutral racial meeting ground&#8221; and consequently more white heroin customers flooded the drug market in the neighborhood, &#8220;happy to avoid black neighborhoods&#8221; where they felt less comfortable and would stand out more to police (Gutman).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puerto Ricans in Kensington are especially vulnerable to violence. Racial tensions in Philadelphia have led to &#8220;Puerto Rican territory&#8221; being viewed as a &#8220;neutral racial meeting ground&#8221; and consequently more white heroin customers flooded the drug market in the neighborhood, &#8220;happy to avoid black neighborhoods&#8221; where they felt less comfortable and would stand out more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1548,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/speakingout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}