{"id":1797,"date":"2007-12-19T06:57:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T11:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2007-12-18T22:50:58","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T03:50:58","slug":"midtopia-cameras-proposed-to-fight-non-existent-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1797","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps It&#8217;s Another of Lori Sturdevant&#8217;s Spending Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Aqui from Midtopia &#8211; a gratifyingly prolific MOB blog &#8211; notes that our new surveillance culture <a href=\"http:\/\/midtopia.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/cameras-proposed-to-fight-non-existent.html\">may have officially gone too far<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Welcome to Buhl, Minn. Population 1,000. It&#8217;s a small, sleepy community where nothing much ever happens. Indeed, it disbanded its police force in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why it <a href=\"http:\/\/wcco.com\/local\/Surveillance.Cameras.buhl.2.612006.html\"><font color=\"#5588aa\">clearly needs surveillance cameras<\/font><\/a> to keep the peace.<\/p>\n<p><em>Local law enforcement officials are pushing a plan to place six surveillance cameras around this Iron Range town of less than a thousand people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sgt. Pat McKenzie of the St. Louis County Sheriff&#8217;s office, which has overseen law enforcement in Buhl since the city disbanded its police department in 1999, said it&#8217;d be a tool for solving and deterring crime. But some residents are asking: What crime?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Scratch your head, ask &#8220;why?&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and read Midtopia more often.  It&#8217;s a great, and undertrafficked, blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Aqui from Midtopia &#8211; a gratifyingly prolific MOB blog &#8211; notes that our new surveillance culture may have officially gone too far: Welcome to Buhl, Minn. Population 1,000. It&#8217;s a small, sleepy community where nothing much ever happens. Indeed, it disbanded its police force in 1999. Which is why it clearly needs surveillance cameras [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}