{"id":148453,"date":"2011-12-10T08:27:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T14:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=148453"},"modified":"2011-12-11T16:09:11","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T22:09:11","slug":"altos-police-department-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=148453","title":{"rendered":"Alto&#8217;s Police Department Is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=148454\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-148454\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/12\/vlcsnap_2011_12_09_17h06m25s134-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"vlcsnap_2011_12_09_17h06m25s134\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-148454\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nALTO &#8212; For police officers in the city of Alto, it has been a real roller coaster.  The force was disbanded last summer when the city ran out of money, but according to KETK, the City Council has now reinstated the department, and chosen a new chief.  Former Alto patrolman Jeremy Jackson is now the chief, and when a reporter first went to talk to him, he was out and for good reason.  The entire force is Jackson &#8212; and one other officer.  Will two officers be enough?  Not according to former Chief Charles Barron.  But Jackson says they\u2019ll make do.  Jackson said when he and his officer began the day watching school zones Friday, they were met with applause, honks and thumbs up.  It seems the city is pretty happy to have its police back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALTO &#8212; For police officers in the city of Alto, it has been a real roller coaster. The force was disbanded last summer when the city ran out of money, but according to KETK, the City Council has now reinstated the department, and chosen a new chief. Former Alto patrolman Jeremy Jackson is now the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=148453\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alto&#8217;s Police Department Is Back<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 01:32:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148453"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148621,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148453\/revisions\/148621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}