{"id":3183,"date":"2006-06-23T00:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3183"},"modified":"2017-12-16T07:00:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T13:00:23","slug":"scope-creep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/23\/scope-creep\/","title":{"rendered":"Scope Creep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/8CDCEA4773D3D0FC86257195001811BA?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Highway Patrol can&#8217;t probe most deaths of mentally ill<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt declared last week that the Highway Patrol would be told of every death and assault in a state mental health facility, but the patrol says it doesn&#8217;t have the manpower to investigate a majority of those cases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t have those types of resources,&#8221; said Capt. Chris Ricks, the Missouri Highway Patrol&#8217;s spokesman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One would assume that it&#8217;s because most of those deaths were not, you know, <i><b>on highways<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Why is this a story?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The acknowledgment came a week after a Post-Dispatch investigation found failures in every level of a system that is supposed to ensure the Department of Mental Health and police adequately investigate allegations of mistreatment of mentally retarded and mentally ill residents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because the <i>Post-Dispatch<\/i> wants to keep up a crusade and maybe get a journalism prize or something.<\/p>\n<p>And if it has to further empower state law enforcement, who cares?  The story of overreaching government authority, that&#8217;s a story&#8211;and a new outrage for media to discover and cover&#8211;for another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highway Patrol can&#8217;t probe most deaths of mentally ill: Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt declared last week that the Highway Patrol would be told of every death and assault in a state mental health facility, but the patrol says it doesn&#8217;t have the manpower to investigate a majority of those cases. &#8220;We don&#8217;t have those types [&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-3183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183","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=3183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18691,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions\/18691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}