{"id":733,"date":"2007-10-27T15:18:38","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T15:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=168"},"modified":"2007-10-27T15:18:38","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T15:18:38","slug":"102507","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"10\/25\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since we&#8217;ve been back in Cleveland, I&#8217;ve been working on an extensive <strong>&#8220;2008 Presidential Political Courage Test&#8221;<\/strong> for <em>Project Vote Smart<\/em>. \u00a0 Part of the &#8220;test,&#8221; is providing 100 word synopsis on various stances. \u00a0 The following is my response to the category of <strong>Crime Issues<\/strong>: \u00a0 I told the <em>Rome (GA) News<\/em> that our administration&#8217;s paradigm would be one of &#8220;Restorative Justice,&#8221; as opposed to dead-end warehousing of prisoners. \u00a0 This would include creative and comprehensive rehabilitation (pyschological counseling, drug and alcohol treatment, education options&#8230;) \u00a0 On the streets we would push for much more Community Oriented Policing, Citizen Patrols, Neigborhood Crime Alert progams, all of which we&#8217;ve looked at in our reserach trips across the country. \u00a0 And on a systemic level when it comes to crime, we propose stepped up efforts to end poverty, heal the family, curb alcohol and drug addiction&#8230; all major contributors to crime. \u00a0 Note: \u00a0 For \u00a0an indepth look at \u00a0our position on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/stands\/position_papers\/pos_crime.html\">crime&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we&#8217;ve been back in Cleveland, I&#8217;ve been working on an extensive &#8220;2008 Presidential Political Courage Test&#8221; for Project Vote Smart. \u00a0 Part of the &#8220;test,&#8221; is providing 100 word synopsis on various stances. \u00a0 The following is my response <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=733\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}