{"id":553,"date":"2003-12-24T04:20:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-24T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=553"},"modified":"2018-08-09T12:24:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T17:24:58","slug":"553","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/24\/553\/","title":{"rendered":"Reassurances From Your Older Sibling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/News\/St.+Charles\/403B921836FBF0D786256E05001F3EF2?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=High-tech+policing\" target=\"new\"><i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> article<\/a> about how the suburb of St. Peters and its duly appointed constabulary <i><b>love<\/b><\/i> their new cameras, we get this reassurance:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The only incident of abuse, according to St. Peters officials, occurred more than a year ago. An employee was caught using the cameras to <b>improperly watch people at the Drury Inn <\/b>on Mid Rivers Mall Drive, a police dispatcher said.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesman David Kuppler wouldn&#8217;t say exactly when the incident occurred, or whether the person was charged with a crime. [Emphasis mine, of course.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why&#8217;s that at the end of the story?  That deserves a lead of its own.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, fellow sheep, cameras won&#8217;t keep the wolves from eating you.  It will only make sure that the shepherds can identify which wolf ate you.  Also, it&#8217;s apparently good for seeing what Little Bo Peep&#8217;s doing in her motel room with Christopher Marlowe when they forget to pull the shades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article about how the suburb of St. Peters and its duly appointed constabulary love their new cameras, we get this reassurance: The only incident of abuse, according to St. Peters officials, occurred more than a year ago. An employee was caught using the cameras to improperly watch people at the [&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-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","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=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22206,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/22206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}