{"id":20044,"date":"2013-08-06T09:10:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T13:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=20044"},"modified":"2013-08-06T09:12:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T13:12:15","slug":"cardboard-cut-out-police-cut-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/cardboard-cut-out-police-cut-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardboard cut-out police cut crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2013\/08\/06\/cardboard-cutout-police-officers-being-used-to-cut-crime-at-mass-transportation\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As part of an effort to cut crime at the Alewife MBTA subway and bus station in Cambridge, transit police placed a cardboard cutout of a police officer in the bicycle cage. Hundreds of people use the racks daily.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Chief Robert Lenehan says the fake cop, along with video cameras and a new lock, has cut bike thefts by 67 percent.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a money saver. Lenehan estimates it would cost $200,000 a year to have an officer watch over the cage full-time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Anglican Church of Canada could learn something from this: replacing bishops with cardboard cut-out replicas would save Anglicans millions of dollars. No more high salaries; no more travel expenses; no more lawsuits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: As part of an effort to cut crime at the Alewife MBTA subway and bus station in Cambridge, transit police placed a cardboard cutout of a police officer in the bicycle cage. Hundreds of people use the racks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/cardboard-cut-out-police-cut-crime\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2032,2223],"class_list":["post-20044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-police-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}