{"id":31447,"date":"2023-09-26T15:26:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T20:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31447"},"modified":"2023-09-26T15:26:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T20:26:22","slug":"george-kuffs-rides-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/26\/george-kuffs-rides-again\/","title":{"rendered":"George Kuffs Rides Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/san-francisco-police-department-patrol-specials-sf-crime-sfpd-staffing\/13817155\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">SF considers bringing back &#8216;patrol specials&#8217; from Gold Rush-era amid police shortage<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) &#8212; Short hundreds of officers, San Francisco is now looking back to a Gold Rush-era idea for a possible staffing solution.<\/p>\n<p>The police commission is hoping a new squad of officers will free up the police department to focus on more serious crimes.<\/p>\n<p>They are called &#8220;patrol specials&#8221; &#8212; security guards with some police training. For a city struggling to get a handle on crime, some government officials say it could be a quick way to add eyes and ears to the streets of San Francisco.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying I watched the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kuffs\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Christian Slater film<\/a> a whole bunch&#8211;not a Showtime-in-the-trailer bunch&#8211;but I saw it in the theaters and then bought it on videocassette and watched it numerous times.<\/p>\n<p>I still have the VHS tape in the Nogglestead video library.  Perhaps I will dust it off for old times&#8217; sake.<\/p>\n<p>Man, I wanted to be like Christian Slater in the middle 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"https:\/\/ogdaa.blogspot.com\/2023\/09\/sf-considers-bringing-back-patrol.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Wirecutter<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SF considers bringing back &#8216;patrol specials&#8217; from Gold Rush-era amid police shortage: SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) &#8212; Short hundreds of officers, San Francisco is now looking back to a Gold Rush-era idea for a possible staffing solution. The police commission is hoping a new squad of officers will free up the police department to focus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31448,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31447\/revisions\/31448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}