{"id":835,"date":"2008-08-08T13:49:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T13:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=270"},"modified":"2008-08-08T13:49:19","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T13:49:19","slug":"8808","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=835","title":{"rendered":"8\/8\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each of the major candidates have position papers \u00a0on crime. \u00a0 We have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/stands\/position_papers\/pos_crime.html\">position paper on crime<\/a> as well. \u00a0 And the following is a take on our paradigm around crime: <em>National Public Radio<\/em> did a piece the other day about a nationwide gathering of law enforcement officers in California this week. \u00a0 One of the officers, who is a gang specialist, said there are currently 50 gang related deaths <em>every day<\/em> \u00a0 in America. \u00a0 In the face of this, our administration would step-up: Community Oriented Policing on the streets, Restorative Justice in the prisons, and programs to end poverty and heal families in the inner city neighborhoods. \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 And we would create incentives for people to move from suburban and small town America back into the cities to live side by side with the poor. \u00a0 When we started abandoning the poor (white flight) for our suburban safety, our suburban comfort, our suburban status, et. al., we &#8212; in a very <em>real<\/em> \u00a0 sense &#8212; started abandoning the gospel message as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each of the major candidates have position papers \u00a0on crime. \u00a0 We have a position paper on crime as well. \u00a0 And the following is a take on our paradigm around crime: National Public Radio did a piece the other <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=835\"><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-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","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=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}