{"id":3345,"date":"2012-03-27T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=3345"},"modified":"2012-03-27T00:30:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T04:30:43","slug":"a-tide-of-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/a-tide-of-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tide of Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/032612_0608_ATideofCrim1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The target of the newest crime wave sweeping the United States? Tide Laundry Detergent. One man stole $25,000 worth of it. The Prince George county police department refers to it as &#8220;liquid gold.&#8221; As it turns out the product&#8217;s characteristics make it ideal as a currency for the drug trade:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Its retail price is relatively high and moderately steady.<\/li>\n<li>There are no serial numbers, making it impossible to track.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s widely available and easier to steal than other products that are often locked down.<\/li>\n<li>Its Day-Glo orange packaging makes it instantly recognizable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read about the drug-bust that turned up more Tide than cocaine, what CVS is doing about it, what the parent company Procter &amp; Gamble thinks about it, and how individuals go about stealing it, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedaily.com\/page\/2012\/03\/12\/031212-news-tide-theft-1-4\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedaily.com\/page\/2012\/03\/12\/031212-news-tide-theft-1-4\/\">The Daily<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/03\/black-market-tide-free-banking.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+marginalrevolution%2Ffeed+%28Marginal+Revolution%29&amp;utm_content=Netvibes\">Marginal Revolution<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/03\/13\/tide-is-the-new-currency-on-th.html\">BoingBoing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The target of the newest crime wave sweeping the United States? Tide Laundry Detergent. One man stole $25,000 worth of it. The Prince George county police department refers to it as &#8220;liquid gold.&#8221; As it turns out the product&#8217;s characteristics make it ideal as a currency for the drug trade: Its retail price is relatively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/032612_0608_ATideofCrim1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3345"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3403,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345\/revisions\/3403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}