{"id":1632,"date":"2010-02-19T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/02\/19\/does-tupper-lake-have-too-many-cops\/"},"modified":"2010-02-19T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T17:15:00","slug":"does-tupper-lake-have-too-many-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/02\/19\/does-tupper-lake-have-too-many-cops\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Tupper Lake have too many cops?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting twist.  Tupper Lake village Mayor Micky Desmarais says there are just too many police hanging around in his community.<\/p>\n<p>Desmarais spoke at a village meeting on Tuesday, complaining that sometimes there are as many as 4-5 state police cruisers in the village, along with two locally-employed patrol cars.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor was quoted extensively in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/511378.html?nav=5008\">Adirondack Daily Enterprise<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Desmarais] said he gets residents asking him if there was a big drug bust or other large incident when there is nothing going on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This really needs to be seriously addressed, because we&#8217;re over-policed in Tupper Lake,&#8221; Desmarais said. &#8220;We spend about $1 million a year to protect people in the village. &#8230; (the village police) do a very good job about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Having too many police around gives Tupper Lake a bad reputation with tourists and other visitors, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He went on to say of state police, &#8220;I personally think they&#8217;re spending too much time in our community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article, including the state police response <a href=\"http:\/\/adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/511378.html?nav=5008\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting twist. Tupper Lake village Mayor Micky Desmarais says there are just too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}