{"id":364,"date":"2013-04-10T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/10\/public-safety-is-tops-shocked-shocked"},"modified":"2013-04-10T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T14:35:00","slug":"public-safety-is-tops-shocked-shocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"Public safety is tops? Shocked, shocked!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Amarillo spends the greatest amount of its municipal budget on police and fire protection.<\/p>\n<p>I know. It\u2019s hard to believe. Actually, this might be a major non-event. It does illustrate the importance people place on vital government services. I cannot think of anything more vital than protecting people\u2019s safety, even their lives.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.connectamarillo.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=882927\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectamarillo.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=882927\">http:\/\/www.connectamarillo.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=882927<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The link attached to this note sketches the city expenses for police and fire. The city\u2019s 2012 budget totals around $258 million, with $88 million of it spent on public safety issues, or about 34 percent of the total.<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t heard of a single community in America that doesn\u2019t place top value on its police and fire protection. Every human being wants to be safe in their homes. To that end, Amarillo is answering the call. <\/p>\n<p>But this link mentions the potential for future change in the city\u2019s priorities. The way I see it, water might edge its way toward the head of the line. It\u2019s not that the city will devalue public safety. It\u2019s that the development of water resources is going to become more critical, particularly as the city\u2019s water supply becomes, shall we say, a bit more endangered.<\/p>\n<p>I mention water as a critical need mainly because without it, none of the rest of it \u2013 police, fire, roads, lights, libraries, trash pickup, parks, you name it \u2013 will matter.<\/p>\n<p>But for now, thanks ought to go to City Hall for recognizing the need to keep its residents safe.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amarillo spends the greatest amount of its municipal budget on police and fire protection. I know. It\u2019s hard to believe. Actually, this might be a major non-event. It does illustrate the importance people place on vital government services. I cannot think of anything more vital than protecting people\u2019s safety, even their lives. http:\/\/www.connectamarillo.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=882927 The link &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=364\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Public safety is tops? Shocked, shocked!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}