{"id":779,"date":"2008-12-22T15:39:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T21:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/?p=779"},"modified":"2008-12-30T15:39:35","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T21:39:35","slug":"wanna-reduce-those-late-night-assaults-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/12\/22\/wanna-reduce-those-late-night-assaults-downtown\/","title":{"rendered":"wanna reduce those late-night assaults downtown?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_0JuSECuIrUI\/SVA3eF6h_ZI\/AAAAAAAAChs\/fGvGBFJuY34\/s1600-h\/fire.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282783353028869522\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_0JuSECuIrUI\/SVA3eF6h_ZI\/AAAAAAAAChs\/fGvGBFJuY34\/s200\/fire.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/staffordshire\/7795899.stm\">bbc news<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1095618\/Fire-eaters-stilt-walkers-booked-Christmas--stop-drunks-fighting.html\"><em>daily mail<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>are reporting on the use of street performers to reduce violence. while the connection may seem tenuous, it is founded on a demonstrable empirical insight: that drunks are dangerous <em>but very easily distracted. <\/em>from bbc:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%\">Stilt-walkers and fire-eaters have been employed by police to help reduce public disorder in Staffordshire.<\/p>\n<p>The four-hour, circus-style, street performances took place in Newcastle-under-Lyme at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The aim was to distract night-time revellers and reduce the likelihood of fights breaking out in the town centre, Staffordshire Police said.<\/p>\n<p>Similar strategies had previously been employed by Greater Manchester Police with success, the force said.<\/p>\n<p>The street entertainment was accompanied by police foot patrols and evidence gathering officers.<\/p>\n<p>A force spokesman said: &#8220;The operation was a great success and had the desired effect of vastly reducing the number of arrests officers had to make during the evening&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:100%\">even if such programs fail to reduce after-bar assaults, they might bring ancillary job creation benefits. as the recession deepens, the market for fire-eaters and stilt-walkers (not to mention fire-walkers and stilt-eaters) is surely deteriorating.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bbc news and the daily mail are reporting on the use of street performers to reduce violence. while the connection may seem tenuous, it is founded on a demonstrable empirical insight: that drunks are dangerous but very easily distracted. from bbc: Stilt-walkers and fire-eaters have been employed by police to help reduce public disorder in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}