{"id":162641302,"date":"2010-02-26T10:08:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T10:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=162641302"},"modified":"2010-02-26T10:08:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T10:08:22","slug":"lapd-chief-charlie-beck-vows-to-better-protect-cyclists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=162641302","title":{"rendered":"LAPD Chief Charlie Beck vows to better protect cyclists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAPD Chief Charlie Beck is vowing to make his department more responsive to the rights of cyclists, responding to growing complaints from bikers who say the city isn&#8217;t doing enough to protect them from careless and aggressive motorists.<br \/>\nBeck made his pledge Wednesday during a City Hall meeting with bicycle advocates, who want the department to do more to crack down on motorists who don&#8217;t respect cyclists&#8217; right to the road.<br \/>\nBeck said bike riders are &quot;our most vulnerable commuters&quot; and that the Los Angeles Police Department needed to do a better job of protecting them.<br \/>\n&quot;We hear you, we know we need to do a better job for you,&quot; Beck said.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-bike-beck26-2010feb26,0,7906796.story\">https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-bike-beck26-2010feb26,0,7906796.story<\/a>oldId.20100226100822455<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAPD Chief Charlie Beck is vowing to make his department more responsive to the rights of cyclists, responding to growing complaints from bikers who say the city isn&#8217;t doing enough to protect them from careless and aggressive motorists. Beck made his pledge Wednesday during a City Hall meeting with bicycle advocates, who want the department &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=162641302\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LAPD Chief Charlie Beck vows to better protect cyclists&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162641302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162641302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162641302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162641302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162641302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162641302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162641302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}