{"id":101262,"date":"2013-12-26T16:03:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T16:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/citizens-launch-armed-patrols-due-to-sheriff-dept-cuts\/"},"modified":"2013-12-26T16:03:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T16:03:20","slug":"citizens-launch-armed-patrols-due-to-sheriff-dept-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/citizens-launch-armed-patrols-due-to-sheriff-dept-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizens launch armed patrols due to sheriff dept. cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephanie McNeal<\/strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/12\/26\/citizens-take-law-into-own-hands-after-cash-strapped-ore-county-guts-sheriff\/\">Fox News<\/a><br \/>December 26, 2013<\/p>\n<p>When budget woes reduced the sheriff&#8217;s department in one rural Oregon county to a bare-bones force, residents decided to take matters into their own hands \u2013 creating armed patrol groups in defiance of local officials. <\/p>\n<p>Their decision has raised safety concerns with the county government, which would prefer residents instead hike their own taxes to fund the hiring of trained deputies. But despite the risks, the move stands as a unique, some would say innovative, response to one of the country&#8217;s most severe local budget crunches. <\/p>\n<p>The government in Josephine County, where nearly 70 percent of the land is owned by the U.S. government, had long relied on federal timber subsidies to pay the bills. When the feds terminated the funds, county officials scrambled to pass a May 2012 tax levy to make up a nearly $7.5 million budget shortfall.<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Thursday, December 26, 2013  at  9:51 am<\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p><!-- share and follow --><!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p>&lt;!&#8211; this is where we need to show the related articles  <\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles_container\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/citizens-launch-armed-patrols-due-to-sheriff-dept-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Citizens launch armed patrols due to sheriff dept. cuts\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie McNealFox NewsDecember 26, 2013 When budget woes reduced the sheriff&#8217;s department in one rural Oregon county to a bare-bones force, residents decided to take matters into their own hands \u2013 creating armed patrol groups in defiance of local officials. Their decision has raised safety concerns with the county government, which would prefer residents instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-101262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}