{"id":270567679,"date":"2013-07-29T13:41:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T13:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=270567679"},"modified":"2013-07-29T13:41:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T13:41:19","slug":"operation-safe-summer-police-reward-kids-for-wearing-helmets-with-ice-cream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=270567679","title":{"rendered":"Operation Safe Summer: Police Reward Kids For Wearing Helmets With Ice Cream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: I love the idea of positive reinforcement, seriously why not reward people for doing behavior that you want instead of only punishing the behavior that you don&#8217;t want? This goes double for bicycling! We want to see more people on bikes, less traffic, more parking, better health&#8230; So instead of trying to making stupid laws that require everyone to wear helmets, just encourage their use, like they have done here. And while we are on positive reinforcement I&#8221; remind you of an old post &quot;The Speed Camera Lottery &quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimorespokes.org\/article.php?story=20101015230537843\">https:\/\/www.baltimorespokes.org\/article.php?story=20101015230537843<\/a> ]<br \/>\n*****************************************************************************************************************************<br \/>\nVia Huffington Post   <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nPolice Chief David Oliver wrote his new policy on Facebook last week:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Effective next week, my officers will have a quota for tickets&#8230;.at least one per shift. We are going to be profiling, too. We will target a specific group, with the express purpose of writing as many tickets as possible. I am strongly encouraging my officers to write as many as they can, every shift, every day&#8230;it is called operation Safe Summer&#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Officers are targeting kids 12 and under. If a cop spots a child wearing a bike helmet while riding, that suspect will be stopped and issued a ticket. And what is that ticket good for? One free ice cream cone from Franks Drive-in.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/06\/05\/operation-safe-summer_n_3390576.html\">https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/06\/05\/operation-safe-summer_n_3390576.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: I love the idea of positive reinforcement, seriously why not reward people for doing behavior that you want instead of only punishing the behavior that you don&#8217;t want? This goes double for bicycling! We want to see more people on bikes, less traffic, more parking, better health&#8230; So instead of trying to making &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=270567679\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Operation Safe Summer: Police Reward Kids For Wearing Helmets With Ice Cream&#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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270567679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-you-will-not-see-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270567679","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=270567679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270567679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270567679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270567679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270567679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}