{"id":22347,"date":"2010-10-14T01:52:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T01:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today-tight_budgets_lead_to_more_civilians_used_for_policing\/"},"modified":"2010-10-14T01:52:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T01:52:43","slug":"usa_today-tight_budgets_lead_to_more_civilians_used_for_policing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22347","title":{"rendered":"USA Today&#8211;Tight budgets lead to more civilians used for policing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police agencies across the country are recruiting thousands of civilians for a growing number of duties previously performed by uniformed cops, in an unusual concession to local budget cuts.<\/p>\n<p>The positions \u201d\u201d some paid and others volunteer \u201d\u201d are transforming every-day citizens into crime-scene investigators, evidence gatherers and photographers in what some analysts suggest is a striking new trend in American policing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s all being driven by the economy and we should expect to see more of it,&#8221; says University of Pittsburgh law professor David Harris, who analyzes law enforcement practices. &#8220;As budgets are squeezed, an increasing number of duties are going to be moved off officers&#8217; plates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2010-10-11-1Acitizenpolice11_ST_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police agencies across the country are recruiting thousands of civilians for a growing number of duties previously performed by uniformed cops, in an unusual concession to local budget cuts. The positions \u201d\u201d some paid and others volunteer \u201d\u201d are transforming<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22347\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,615,149,114,151,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-city-government","category-economy","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}