{"id":188,"date":"2008-01-17T07:54:59","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T11:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2009-07-24T11:14:59","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T15:14:59","slug":"police-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/17\/police-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Police training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 12px;\"  src=\"http:\/\/llimg.ny.publicus.com\/apps\/pbcsi.dll\/bilde?Avis=LL&#038;Dato=20080109&#038;Kategori=PHOTOS&#038;Lopenr=336072068&#038;Ref=PH&#038;NewTbl=1&#038;Itemnr=1&#038;maxw=175&#038;maxh=175&#038;Border=1\" alt=\"I-4 fog accident\" \/><br \/>\nFrom an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theledger.com\/article\/20080113\/NEWS\/801130450\/1048\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theledger.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lakeland Ledger<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A state legislator blamed understaffing by the Florida Highway Patrol for the magnitude of a deadly chain-reaction crash along a smoke-filled and foggy section of Interstate 4 in Polk County&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe it could have been prevented,&#8221; Brandenburg said. &#8220;Those people didn&#8217;t have to die.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brandenburg said more troopers could have reacted more quickly to the deteriorating road conditions and closed the road.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Talk about clueless.<\/p>\n<p>The taxpayers of Florida <em><strong>mandated<\/strong><\/em> that our government design and build a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Florida_High_Speed_Rail\" target=\"_blank\">high-speed train through that corridor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Bush couldn&#8217;t be bothered, so he stalled and convinced the voters to repeal the mandate because it would &#8220;cost too much&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Now Brandenburg wants to encumber the state payroll with more FHP troopers.  While they&#8217;re worth every penny, troopers are expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Why did we not have enough money to fix the I-4 problem in 2004 with the economy under full steam, but we&#8217;re being asked to fund a band-aid for it in 2008 with a recession on the way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an article in the Lakeland Ledger: A state legislator blamed understaffing by the Florida Highway Patrol for the magnitude of a deadly chain-reaction crash along a smoke-filled and foggy section of Interstate 4 in Polk County&#8230; &#8220;I believe it could have been prevented,&#8221; Brandenburg said. &#8220;Those people didn&#8217;t have to die.&#8221; Brandenburg said more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best","category-gainesville","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}