{"id":140,"date":"2005-02-22T10:53:13","date_gmt":"2005-02-22T18:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/02\/wanted_volunteers_to_dress_as_vagrants_no_law_order_experience_necessary.html"},"modified":"2005-02-22T10:53:13","modified_gmt":"2005-02-22T18:53:13","slug":"wanted_voluntee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/wanted_voluntee.html","title":{"rendered":"Wanted: Volunteers to Dress as Vagrants (No Law &#038; Order Experience Necessary)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City&#8217;s Department of Homeless Services is offering $100 to volunteers to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/283223p-242721c.html\">serve as quality control decoys for their annual homeless count<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>As part of a new quality-control measure from the Department of Homeless Services, some 150 &#8220;fake&#8221; homeless &#8211; graduate students clad in old clothes and blankets &#8211; will be sent out to see if the volunteers spot them.<\/p>\n<p>If the volunteers approach the decoys, the fakes, who are making $100 each, will &#8216;fess up and hand over a sticker to make sure they are not mistakenly counted.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to test the effectiveness of the count, which has been criticized by some homeless advocates because it partly relies on estimates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What happens to this cadre of 150 could be a fairly faithful replica&#8221; of the count&#8217;s accuracy, said Dr. Kim Hopper, a research scientist at the Nathan Kline Institute, who is leading the decoy effort.<\/p>\n<p>Some 1,500 volunteers have already signed up and will gather at 10:30 p.m. Monday for a quick training session, then hit the streets at midnight for a few hours.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not clear if they are offering a bonus for multiple visits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City&#8217;s Department of Homeless Services is offering $100 to volunteers to serve as quality control decoys for their annual homeless count: As part of a new quality-control measure from the Department of Homeless Services, some 150 &#8220;fake&#8221; homeless &#8211; graduate students clad in old clothes and blankets &#8211; will be sent out to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citywide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}