{"id":86945,"date":"2015-11-09T09:47:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T15:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=86945"},"modified":"2015-11-11T08:45:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T14:45:05","slug":"86945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=86945","title":{"rendered":"Petition circulating to disband VC police dept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/VCPD2b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-63563\" alt=\"VCPD2b\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/VCPD2b-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/VCPD2b-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/VCPD2b-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/VCPD2b.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Valley City (CSi) Under a proposal to move all law enforcement responsibility to the Barnes County Sheriff\u2019s Office, a petition is circulating in Valley City to disband the Valley City Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The petition asks residents to vote whether or not to created an Ordinance disbanding the Valley City Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The sponsoring committee of this petition\u00a0consists \u00a0of Robert Drake, Brian Mindt and Anthony Drake.<\/p>\n<p>Organizer Robert Drake\u00a0says \u00a0supporters believe there is poor communication between the two law agencies, and a doubling of costs.<\/p>\n<p>In Mayor Bob Werkhoven&#8217;s opinion, \u00a0the petition seems to be too extreme compared to his proposal, placing administrative control of the city police department under the Sheriff\u2019s Office and would not disband the police department completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City (CSi) Under a proposal to move all law enforcement responsibility to the Barnes County Sheriff\u2019s Office, a petition is circulating in Valley City to disband the Valley City Police Department. The petition asks residents to vote whether or not to created an Ordinance disbanding the Valley City Police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86945"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87227,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86945\/revisions\/87227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}