{"id":6027,"date":"2011-02-02T08:07:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T13:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=6027"},"modified":"2011-02-02T08:07:09","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T13:07:09","slug":"operation-rapid-strike-officers-used-excessive-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/02\/operation-rapid-strike-officers-used-excessive-force","title":{"rendered":"Operation Rapid Strike Officers Used &#8216;excessive force&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a press conference held yesterday morning in Nassau Village,  businessman, activist and political personality Omar Archer announced  that there have been &#8220;serious claims&#8221; of officers abusing their power  while on the new Rapid Strike night raids &#8211; which are being touted as  key to fighting the rampant crime problem.<\/p>\n<p>Rapid Strike was launched on January 19 in an effort to reverse the escalating violent crime in  New Providence.<\/p>\n<p>The operation is said to target people who the police suspect to be  involved in murders, armed robberies, possession of illegal firearms,  stealing of vehicles, stabbings, house break-ins, and all other criminal  activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A political activist is claiming that some Operation Rapid Strike officers have used &#8220;excessive force&#8221; and violated the constitutional rights of Bahamians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[93,38],"class_list":["post-6027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}