{"id":1235,"date":"2008-10-22T22:39:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T04:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2008-10-22T22:39:18","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T04:39:18","slug":"bicycle-officers-making-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/22\/bicycle-officers-making-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicycle officers making a difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <span class=\"bylinetitle\">The Seguin Gazette-Enterprise<\/span><\/p>\n<p>by Ron Maloney<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"body\">Imagine this job on a sunny fall day.<\/p>\n<p>You ride your Fuji mountain bike up and down the streets of residential subdivisions, seeing up-close and personal what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going on \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and getting to know the people there, while also getting a little exercise.<\/p>\n<p>If things are slow, you might be able to fill a little time checking out kid\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bikes \u00e2\u20ac\u201d or maybe even getting into a bike race with a couple of 10-year-old boys.<\/p>\n<p>If it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sound like much of a job, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be fooled, because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the job of three police officers who say it helps them learn their community and the folks in it first-hand \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and lets the public learn about the police as well, which is the goal of the bicycle patrol unit now nearing a year of service at the Cibolo Police Department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Seguin Gazette-Enterprise\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seguingazette.com\/story.lasso?ewcd=22106488c0d10f97\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>link to Ron&#8217;s full article at <span class=\"bylinetitle\">The Seguin Gazette-Enterprise<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Seguin Gazette-Enterprise by Ron Maloney Imagine this job on a sunny fall day. You ride your Fuji mountain bike up and down the streets of residential subdivisions, seeing up-close and personal what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going on \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and getting to <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/22\/bicycle-officers-making-a-difference\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,138],"tags":[5261,457,438],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-mountain-bike","tag-mountain-bike","tag-police-officer","tag-seguin-texas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-jV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}