{"id":7080,"date":"2009-04-01T11:37:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T18:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7080"},"modified":"2009-04-01T11:37:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T18:37:41","slug":"cop-pays-skatepark-membership-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7080","title":{"rendered":"Cop Pays Skatepark Membership For Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Naples Police Officer <strong>Jullian Cercone<\/strong>, 26, caught Jose Vega, 13, his brother Michael and their two friends skateboarding in an area where they weren&#8217;t supposed to she could have <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6981\" target=\"_blank\">roughed them up<\/a><\/strong>. But she didn&#8217;t, according to a story in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naplesnews.com\/news\/2009\/apr\/01\/naples-police-officer-steers-kids-appropriate-plac\/\" target=\"_blank\">Naples News<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Instead, she found a solution that would make the businesses happy all while keeping the boys rolling. . . \u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for her, we wouldn\u2019t be skateboarding,\u201d Jose said. . . . Cercone also used her encounters as an opportunity to build a relationship with kids in the community. . . .\u201cI think it\u2019s important for the young kids in the community to develop a good rapport between themselves and the police department,\u201d Cercone said. \u201cThey are the future of our county.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cercone went so far building rapport that she actually paid for the kids&#8217; membership at the local skatepark. See, not all cops are power mad authority freaks. Apparently, it&#8217;s just the dudes. . . <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naplesnews.com\/news\/2009\/apr\/01\/naples-police-officer-steers-kids-appropriate-plac\/\">Naples News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Naples Police Officer Jullian Cercone, 26, caught Jose Vega, 13, his brother Michael and their two friends skateboarding in an area where they weren&#8217;t supposed to she could have roughed them up. But she didn&#8217;t, according to a story in Naples News. Instead, she found a solution that would make the businesses happy all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7081,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080\/revisions\/7081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}