{"id":33271,"date":"2018-02-27T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-police-plan-community-meeting-for-march-21\/"},"modified":"2018-02-27T11:19:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T19:19:56","slug":"kent-police-plan-community-meeting-for-march-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-police-plan-community-meeting-for-march-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Police plan Community Meeting for March 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent Police Department will have a Community Meeting to discuss crime trends, prevention and a special presentation about Proposition A, to raise utility taxes to pay for more officers.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting is from 10 to 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 21, at the Kent Senior Activity Center, 600 E. Smith St.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Ken Thomas, command staff and officers will be at the meeting to talk about the issues.<\/p>\n<p>The City Council voted 7-0 in February to place a measure on the April 24 ballot that would increase city utility taxes on electric, natural gas, cable and phone bills to 8 percent from 6 percent. If approved, the measure would bring in about $4.8 million per year to hire 21 more officers over the next three years, boosting the force to 180 members. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crime trends, ballot measure on agenda <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":33272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-33271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33271"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}