{"id":101356,"date":"2009-12-23T19:46:25","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T00:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010581977_morepoliceshootingsmoreprisonsystemworries.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2009-12-23T19:46:25","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T00:46:25","slug":"more-police-shootings-more-prison-system-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/101356","title":{"rendered":"More police shootings, more prison-system worries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State budget deficit should not affect safety guidelines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Editor, The Times:<\/p>\n<p>Our police are being killed because of Washington state\u2019s failure to keep violent criminals behind bars [\u201cAttack on deputies stuns weary region,\u201d page one, Dec. 23].<\/p>\n<p>Violent criminals need to be locked up and the key thrown away. The state of Florida has a 10-20-life law for gun crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s get that law here, also. Washington\u2019s budget deficit should not be what guides our safety.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Reno Raines, Auburn<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sheriff\u2019s attitude out of line?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I found the attitude as projected by Pierce County Sheriff Paul Pastor\u2019s statement prominently displayed on the front page of The Seattle Times to be astonishing \u2014 \u201cThis should underline and make clear that people who wear badges risk themselves for perfect strangers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What does the sheriff think the role of the police forces is?<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff Pastor gets paid for putting his tail on the line. And, yes, having dedicated more than 32 years of uniform service to our country, I well understand sacrifice for the good of the cause.<\/p>\n<p>Take a good look in the mirror Pastor and ask yourself: \u201cDo I deserve to be wearing this uniform in service of the good people of Pierce County?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Charles Bickel, Poulsbo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State budget deficit should not affect safety guidelines Editor, The Times: Our police are being killed because of Washington state\u2019s failure to keep violent criminals behind bars [\u201cAttack on deputies stuns weary region,\u201d page one, Dec. 23]. Violent criminals need to be locked up and the key thrown away. The state of Florida has a [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}