{"id":3927,"date":"2015-08-03T15:36:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T19:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/08\/03\/saccenti-quoted-in-article\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:27:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:27:09","slug":"saccenti-quoted-in-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/saccenti-quoted-in-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Saccenti quoted in USA Today article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/usa-today-saccenti.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18590 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/usa-today-saccenti.jpg\" alt=\"usa-today-saccenti\" width=\"220\" height=\"232\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 220px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 220\/232;\" \/><\/a>For years, an increasing number of university police departments have been arming their officers to deal with potential threats on campus. The numbers continue to grow, campus law enforcement officials say, even after the deadly shooting at the University of Cincinnati. Tom Saccenti, Furman\u2019s chief of police, was quoted in a <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2015\/07\/31\/campus-police-arms-increase\/30931489\/\">USA Today<\/a><\/em><\/strong> article about how campus police departments are preparing for their officers to deal with a variety of situations. &#8220;Campus police are light years ahead of where we used to be,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, an increasing number of university police departments have been arming their officers to deal with potential threats on campus. The numbers continue to grow, campus law enforcement officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":15136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}