{"id":7216,"date":"2011-03-21T09:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T13:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=7216"},"modified":"2011-03-21T09:55:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T13:55:07","slug":"bahamas-murder-rate-triple-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/03\/bahamas-murder-rate-triple-the-u-s","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Murder Rate Triple The U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study reveals that the country&#8217;s murder rate is three times higher per capita than the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt Chaswell Hanna said that for every 100,000 persons, the Bahamas has three times the murders of the US and is ranked 14th in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The study entitled, &#8220;Reducing Murders in The Bahamas: A Strategic Plan Based on Empirical Research,&#8221; is a comprehensive research analysis of murder trends between 2005 and 2009 and also features a murder reduction strategy that proposes policy changes, police initiatives, legislative adjustments and community based programmes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study shows that the murder rate in the Bahamas is three times higher per capita than in the United States and the country is ranked 14th in the world.<\/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":[31,38,113],"class_list":["post-7216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-police","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216","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=7216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}