{"id":89,"date":"2019-05-27T14:46:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T14:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2019-05-27T14:46:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T14:46:10","slug":"lacava-is-forced-to-comment-on-his-anti-police-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"LaCava is Forced to Comment on his Anti-Police Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe LaCava spoke less than favorably about the San Diego Police Department at a recent community event, as detailed <a href=\"https:\/\/sdrostra.com\/joe-lacava-bashes-law-enforcement\/\">post on SD Rostra<\/a>. LaCava said the San Diego Police \u201cdon\u2019t do enough for the community\u201d and \u201cfocus too much\u201d on crime.<\/p>\n<p>The post clearly upset LaCava, as he was forced to respond to the original post with a page-long statement in which he reiterates his desire to change the way the SDPD conducts its business.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than refute what was written on Rostra, LaCava says he does in fact want the police to focus more of their efforts on the 1960s tactic of community policing &#8211; which would be far less effective.<\/p>\n<p>He writes, \u201cWhile we have 200 vacant budgeted positions in SDPD, we are arguably another 200 positions short of the staffing needed to fully implement Community Oriented Policing across our city,\u201d So why, then is this strategy something he believes the police need to return to?<\/p>\n<p>Joe LaCava announced his bid for City Council less than a month ago and is already off to a bad start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe LaCava spoke less than favorably about the San Diego Police Department at a recent community event, as detailed post on SD Rostra. LaCava said the San Diego Police \u201cdon\u2019t do enough for the community\u201d and \u201cfocus too much\u201d on crime. The post clearly upset LaCava, as he was forced to respond to the original&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>LaCava is Forced to Comment on his Anti-Police Rhetoric - San Diego News Desk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=89\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LaCava is Forced to Comment on his Anti-Police Rhetoric - San Diego News Desk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Joe LaCava spoke less than favorably about the San Diego Police Department at a recent community event, as detailed post on SD Rostra. 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