{"id":19908,"date":"2018-10-05T11:37:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T15:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=19908"},"modified":"2018-10-05T11:37:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T15:37:50","slug":"the-benefits-of-police-militarization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2018\/10\/05\/the-benefits-of-police-militarization\/","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits of Police Militarization"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"60%\">\u201cPublic Safety, Private Harm: The Impact of Police Militarization on Crime and Well-being\u201d is the title of a lecture to be given by Dr. David Vitt, assistant professor in the economics department.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dr. Vitt, &#8220;I explore the impact of transferring surplus military equipment to law enforcement on crime and suicide. I find that the equipment enhances productivity and community safety by reducing crime, and that there is a corresponding decrease in suicide on account of the increased sense of safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact <strong><a href=\"mailto:walshn@farmingdale.edu\">Natalie Walsh<\/a><\/strong>; 631-794-6208.<\/p>\n<p>Print and post this <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/David-Vitt-policing-lecture.pdf\">flyer<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPublic Safety, Private Harm: The Impact of Police Militarization on Crime and Well-being\u201d is the title of a lecture to be given by Dr. David Vitt, assistant professor in the economics department. According to Dr. Vitt, &#8220;I explore the impact of transferring surplus military equipment to law enforcement on crime and suicide. I find that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":20021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19908"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20065,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19908\/revisions\/20065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}