{"id":47051,"date":"2014-09-12T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47051"},"modified":"2014-09-11T06:17:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T11:17:26","slug":"the-walker-prescription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47051","title":{"rendered":"The Walker Prescription"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A regular reader emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So I am driving home listening to MPR\/NPR and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/09\/02\/345296155\/how-a-new-police-force-in-camden-helped-turn-the-city-around\">hear this article below<\/a>. \u00a0Essentially Camden, NJ, couldn&#8217;t afford the &#8220;work rules&#8221; negotiated by the local police union spending $180,000 per cop. \u00a0So they turned it over to the county and a new contract with new rules which brought the cost down to $90,000 per cop. \u00a0Crime is down, more cops are on the street, more community policing.<br \/>\nAnd I thought&#8230;isn&#8217;t that kind of the same thing Scott Walker did with the teacher contracts? \u00a0Hmmmmm.<\/p>\n<p>Your friend,<\/p>\n<p>[Redacted]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re seeing it all over the country; when public sector unions are stripped of their undue influence (even just by making them voluntary), costs go down and services improve.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m pushing Walker for President, so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A regular reader emails: So I am driving home listening to MPR\/NPR and hear this article below. \u00a0Essentially Camden, NJ, couldn&#8217;t afford the &#8220;work rules&#8221; negotiated by the local police union spending $180,000 per cop. \u00a0So they turned it over to the county and a new contract with new rules which brought the cost down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47051","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=47051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47052,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47051\/revisions\/47052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}