{"id":562,"date":"2009-04-08T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/?p=562"},"modified":"2009-04-08T10:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T14:52:00","slug":"i-understand-your-reservations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"I Understand Your Reservations &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/acropolis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-563\" title=\"acropolis\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/acropolis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8230; really, I do.  But take the help, Yonkers Police Department.  I just read an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/29\/nyregion\/westchester\/29murderwe.html\">interesting article<\/a> in the New York Times about the Yonkers Police Department&#8217;s reluctance to let a writer see the case files for the 1952 murder of labor leader John\u00a0Acropolis.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to downplay their concerns, but they can be addressed while still allowing the writer access. \u00a0I just know so many cases where a sincere and caring writer has helped an investigation. \u00a0I&#8217;m not just saying this because I&#8217;m a writer! \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For instance, for the past couple of years writer Weston DeWalt has been helping West Coast law enforcement on a bunch of cold cases involving children. \u00a0It has been a mutually satisfactory situation that has benefited all involved. \u00a0Satisfactory really doesn&#8217;t even begin to cover it. \u00a0I know that at a recent dig for one of the bodies of those poor children, the people there, law enforcement, family members, and DeWalt, were moved to tears.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a writer who can work 24\/7 on case it&#8217;s not surprising that sometimes they come up with something useful. \u00a0It&#8217;s not a comment on your work on the case, you don&#8217;t have the luxury of devoting all your energy to one case that&#8217;s more than a half a century old. \u00a0Check the person out. \u00a0If they are responsible, caring and hard working, take the help.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> I didn&#8217;t know Yonkers had a cold case squad and I&#8217;m adding them to my list right now! \u00a0If you know of a cold case unit that is not on my list (which is on the left, under &#8220;Information&#8221;) please let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; really, I do. But take the help, Yonkers Police Department. I just read an interesting article in the New York Times about the Yonkers Police Department&#8217;s reluctance to let a writer see the case files for the 1952 murder of labor leader John\u00a0Acropolis. I don&#8217;t want to downplay their concerns, but they can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piV6s-94","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}