{"id":31610,"date":"2023-11-21T07:41:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T13:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31610"},"modified":"2023-11-21T07:41:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T13:41:29","slug":"the-springfield-police-chief-puts-it-diplomatically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/21\/the-springfield-police-chief-puts-it-diplomatically\/","title":{"rendered":"The Springfield Police Chief Puts It Diplomatically"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ky3.com\/2023\/11\/21\/springfield-police-chief-addresses-string-gun-violence-more-city-council-meeting\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Springfield Police Chief addresses string of gun violence and more at city council meeting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The chief says the recent shootings are not random, but the concern is still there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is concern about an element in our society that hadn\u2019t been there in the past that is growing,\u201d said Chief Paul Williams. \u201cWe\u2019re doing our best to keep a lid on it and take those people off the streets, but we really need the community to step up and be aware,\u201d said Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Back-to-back homicides are tragically hurting those in the Springfield area, with four deaths in just the last week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Springfield media is not so interested in finding what might be common threads between the victims and the perpetrators, instead focusing on the fact that guns were used since the Powers That Would Be are gearing up for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/government-politics\/st-louis-aldermen-approve-trigger-open-carry-ban\/article_ce68330e-8585-11ee-9d06-731700456aad.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">a ballot initiative<\/a> to supersede statewide law which keeps local governments from enacting gun control laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Springfield Police Chief addresses string of gun violence and more at city council meeting: The chief says the recent shootings are not random, but the concern is still there. \u201cThere is concern about an element in our society that hadn\u2019t been there in the past that is growing,\u201d said Chief Paul Williams. \u201cWe\u2019re doing our [&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-31610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31610","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=31610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31611,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31610\/revisions\/31611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}