{"id":4180,"date":"2015-11-12T18:15:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T18:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/11\/12\/community-coats-and-cops\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:49:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:49:48","slug":"community-coats-and-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/community-coats-and-cops\/","title":{"rendered":"Community, Coats and Cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/neil-jamerson2-cropped.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19955 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/neil-jamerson2-cropped-medium.jpg\" alt=\"neil jamerson2, cropped\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/216;\" \/><\/a>When headlines report what seems like daily clashes between police and the public, it\u2019s refreshing to see a whole other side of law enforcement that may not make the nightly news. For their Riley Institute Diversity Leaders Initiative (DLI) project, Furman\u2019s Assistant VP for Student Development Neil Jamerson teamed with Greenville County Sheriff\u2019s Office Public Information Officer Lt. Ty Miller, and other members of the DLI project group to launch Community, Coats and Cops. It\u2019s an effort to collect coats which are kept in deputies\u2019 squad car trunks and are distributed to citizens as officers see a need. Jamerson wrote about the initiative in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2015\/11\/12\/coats-and-cops-help-warm-community-greenville-county-sheriffs-office-thanksgiving-program\/75521990\/\">GreenvilleOnline<\/a>.\u00a0At Furman, new or gently used coats may be taken to the\u00a0Heller Service Corp office in Trone Student Center now through Nov. 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When headlines report what seems like daily clashes between police and the public, it\u2019s refreshing to see a whole other side of law enforcement that may not make the nightly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":15561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,6,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-in-the-news","category-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}