{"id":4571,"date":"2011-08-04T05:29:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T09:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4571"},"modified":"2011-08-08T13:29:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T17:29:45","slug":"morning-read-how-do-police-set-their-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/08\/04\/morning-read-how-do-police-set-their-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  How do police set their priorities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/article\/20110803\/NEWS02\/110803001\/Currier-Cass-cases-show-contrast-police-response\">Burlington Free Press<\/a> ran a fascinating piece this week looking at the very different approaches taken by law enforcement in two missing person cases.<\/p>\n<p>One involved a missing couple from the Vermont town of Essex; the other involved an 11-year-old girl from New Hampshire, whose body was found in Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>As reporter Mike Donoghue found, the girl&#8217;s search involved dozens of police, FBI agents and other resources.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the case of a missing Essex couple, William and Lorraine Currier,  state police have assigned two detectives to the investigation full-time  and use other officers as Essex police request.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Col. Robert Quinn, head of New Hampshire state police, told the Free Press that at one point more than 200 officers were searching for Celina Cass.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhy the response? I think it is obvious: When an 11-year-old  disappears, collectively, law enforcement pulls together. We all have  the shared goal to reunite the child with the parents.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s understandable.\u00a0 But it also raises some serious questions about how law enforcement prioritizes for different people.\u00a0 My own industry &#8212; journalism &#8212; is certainly drawn to &#8220;charismatic&#8221; victims in ways that aren&#8217;t always ethical or appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying that happened here.\u00a0 But I think Donoghue&#8217;s article raises some provocative questions.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/article\/20110803\/NEWS02\/110803001\/Currier-Cass-cases-show-contrast-police-response\">Read it in full here<\/a> and chime in below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Burlington Free Press ran a fascinating piece this week looking at the very different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6501,4872],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571"}],"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=4571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}