{"id":292806,"date":"2014-02-25T13:50:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T19:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=292806"},"modified":"2014-02-26T14:08:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T20:08:07","slug":"gladewater-pd-hopes-to-improve-after-hard-hitting-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=292806","title":{"rendered":"Gladewater PD Hopes to Improve after Hard-Hitting Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/02\/Gladewater-Police-Patch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/02\/Gladewater-Police-Patch-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Gladewater Police Patch\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-292819\" \/><\/a>GLADEWATER &#8212; A paid study of Gladewater&#8217;s police department is complete &#8212; and KETK reports the results are not pretty.   The study was conducted by former Dallas Police Chief Bill Rathburn, with the $22,000 assessment paid for by Gladewater&#8217;s city council.  Rathburn told the council its department performs poorly and has no leadership.  The report also accuses some in the department of mistreatment toward African-Americans in town.  Rathburn&#8217;s study was conducted under the former police chief.   He says new Chief Robert Vine can use the study as a blueprint to turn the department around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GLADEWATER &#8212; A paid study of Gladewater&#8217;s police department is complete &#8212; and KETK reports the results are not pretty. The study was conducted by former Dallas Police Chief Bill Rathburn, with the $22,000 assessment paid for by Gladewater&#8217;s city council. Rathburn told the council its department performs poorly and has no leadership. The report &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=292806\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gladewater PD Hopes to Improve after Hard-Hitting Study<\/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-292806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 10:09:09","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\/292806","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=292806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292820,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292806\/revisions\/292820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}