{"id":294426562,"date":"2014-05-01T17:09:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T17:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=294426562"},"modified":"2014-05-01T17:09:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T17:09:22","slug":"areas-with-most-shootings-robberies-to-get-more-police-on-bike-patrols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=294426562","title":{"rendered":"Areas With Most Shootings, Robberies to Get More Police on Bike Patrols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Casey Cora, DNA Info Chicago<\/p>\n<p>BRIDGEPORT \u2014 Police officers on foot patrol in high-crime areas will ride bicycles to help boost their visibility in the neighborhoods, city officials announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>More than one-third of the 360 officers assigned to foot patrol in &quot;Operation Impact&quot; have been equipped with the police bikes since April 1, Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The policing-by-bike strategy, tested during the 2012 NATO summit, allows for more interaction with residents and gives police more mobility, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy said crime rates have dipped in the 20 impact zones \u2014 murders are down nearly 50 percent, shootings are down 43 percent and overall crime is down 26 percent.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/chicago\/20140418\/bridgeport\/areas-with-most-shootings-robberies-get-more-police-on-bike-patrols\">https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/chicago\/20140418\/bridgeport\/areas-with-most-shootings-robberies-get-more-police-on-bike-patrols<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Casey Cora, DNA Info Chicago BRIDGEPORT \u2014 Police officers on foot patrol in high-crime areas will ride bicycles to help boost their visibility in the neighborhoods, city officials announced Friday. More than one-third of the 360 officers assigned to foot patrol in &quot;Operation Impact&quot; have been equipped with the police bikes since April 1, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=294426562\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Areas With Most Shootings, Robberies to Get More Police on Bike Patrols&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294426562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-you-will-not-see-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294426562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294426562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294426562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294426562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294426562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294426562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}