Yesterday there was a meet-and-greet for the MPD officers who will be patrolling Downtown on foot and on bike, working with the CCC’s Downtown safety patrol.\u00a0 They will be cleaning up the few people down here who give Downtown a bad name:\u00a0 Aggressive panhandlers, parking scammers, drunk and disorderly street people who are out every day causing trouble.<\/p>\n
Initially we were told that four officers would be assigned to the task, backed up by one more officer in a patrol car, working from Tuesday to Saturday.\u00a0 However, those who attended the meet-and-greet yesterday learned that MPD had stepped it up.\u00a0 They now plan to assign EIGHT officers to the detail, and officers will be on duty seven days a week.<\/p>\n
Aggressive Downtown panhandlers, these officers are ready to get to know you up close and personal.\u00a0 Get ready to make some new friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday there was a meet-and-greet for the MPD officers who will be patrolling Downtown on foot and on bike, working with the CCC’s Downtown safety patrol.\u00a0 They will be cleaning up the few people down here who give Downtown a bad name:\u00a0 Aggressive panhandlers, parking scammers, drunk and disorderly street people who are out every … Continue reading “Attn Downtown panhandlers: Get ready to make some new friends”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7480,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479\/revisions\/7480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}