{"id":26649,"date":"2012-10-08T09:13:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T13:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=26649"},"modified":"2012-10-08T09:13:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T13:13:13","slug":"police-target-gangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/10\/police-target-gangs","title":{"rendered":"Police Target Gangs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26651\" title=\"gang-violence\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gang-violence.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gang-violence.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gang-violence-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The recent incarceration of several gang leaders has resulted in a slowdown in murders, according to Superintendent Paul Rolle, who heads the Central Detective Unit.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the country recorded a record-breaking 127 murders. There was also a spree of murders during the first quarter of this year, leading some to fear that the murder record would be broken again. However, murders slowed significantly in the summer months.<\/p>\n<p>Rolle said police strategies have been aimed at local crime organizations. So far this year there have been 89 murders. This same time last year there were 108 murders.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the spate of recent murders, Rolle said he believes that the Police Force\u2019s uncompromising approach to organized crime is paying off.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the public must also do its part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to reduce the high murder rate of the country, police have targeted their crime-fighting strategies at local crime organizations, specifically gang leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[31,38],"class_list":["post-26649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}