{"id":390,"date":"2004-09-01T19:22:19","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T02:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/a-letter-to-the-mayor\/"},"modified":"2004-09-01T19:22:19","modified_gmt":"2004-09-02T02:22:19","slug":"a-letter-to-the-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/mine\/a-letter-to-the-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"A Letter to the Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Dear Mayor Ch&aacute;vez-<\/p>\n<p>We were awakened at 2:30am by a police helicopter swooping in <\/p>\n<p>low over our house (this happens several times every month). It returned again less than an hour later. Now we have been besieged for <\/p>\n<p>over 17 hours.<\/p>\n<p>I understand the police believe these helicopters contribute to their safety and the public&#8217;s &#8212; I disagree with that <\/p>\n<p>claim. Regardless of that claim, it is impossible to believe that having two police helicopters circling over this part of town for 12 <\/p>\n<p>hours has benefited anyone. One can only imagine the cost, but I don&#8217;t care about APD pissing away money. I care about my quality of <\/p>\n<p>life which is shattered by this ceaseless noise. There is absolutely no reason for two helicopters to circle endlessly, especially <\/p>\n<p>following a flightpath more than a mile in diameter, at times barely above houses.<\/p>\n<p>From the police chief on down, there needs to be <\/p>\n<p>some training in the effective use of resources. Pilots need some awareness of the havoc they wreck with their disregard of the public <\/p>\n<p>peace. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Mayor Ch&aacute;vez- We were awakened at 2:30am by a police helicopter swooping in low over our house (this happens several times every month). It returned again less than an hour later. Now we have been besieged for over 17 hours. I understand the police believe these helicopters contribute to their safety and the public&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/mine\/a-letter-to-the-mayor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Letter to the Mayor<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}