{"id":9225,"date":"2010-10-11T18:46:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T18:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/59.6039"},"modified":"2010-10-11T18:46:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T18:46:29","slug":"library-patrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/2010\/10\/11\/library-patrol\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Patrol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Urban libraries by default, have become de facto social service providers; counseling centers; shelters and regrettably, crime scenes.<br \/>\nStaff find themselves adding &#8220;security officer&#8221;; &#8220;guidance counselor&#8221; and sadly, &#8220;victim&#8221; to their job descriptions.<br \/>\nCrime prevention and humanitarian activists should build alliances with local libraries because employees and patrons deserve extra assistance.<br \/>\nBeing a bibliophile already places me inside libraries. As a security consultant\/activist these very public spaces are often a soft underbelly for disorder given their open door policies.<br \/>\nLibrary patronage provide an accurate snapshot of area socio-economic trends, good and bad.<br \/>\nAs an activist and volunteer I&#8217;ve reported crime; shelved books; applied bar codes; given speeches and hosted meetings inside various libraries.<br \/>\nObviously my love of libraries includes promoting greater safety and service delivery to embattled urban locations.<br \/>\nAs a library &#8220;super friend&#8221; I encourage activists and book lovers to unofficially help local branches or do so officially as volunteers and\/or as Friends of The Library.<br \/>\nLibrary patrol will open your eyes to profound needs beyond hoping new bestsellers are available.<br \/>\nLibrary patrol shows you just how serious the mission of urban libraries has become as difficult issues in human form literally cross their doorsteps on a daily basis!<br \/>\nNADRA ENZI AKA CAPT BLACK is a library super friend who has assisted libraries in several states as part of his promotion of crime prevention and self-development. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captblack.info\">http:\/\/www.captblack.info <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Black discusses the patrolling your local libraries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,17],"tags":[442,675,985,1504,1505,1506,1530,2795,3000],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}