{"id":18968,"date":"2018-02-09T13:10:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=18968"},"modified":"2018-02-16T10:54:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T10:54:37","slug":"gun-crime-in-wales-soars-by-80-new-figures-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/gun-crime-in-wales-soars-by-80-new-figures-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun crime in Wales soars by 80%, new figures show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gun crime in south Wales has gone up by 80% over the past five years, figures show.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Office for National Statistics says the number of crimes involving guns has increased every year since 2012.<\/p>\n<p>South Wales Police\u00a0says it is also increasingly worried about the spread of gang culture from London to other regions, including Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p>The force says gang members carrying knives move to other cities to sell drugs, sparking the rise in violent crime.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18984\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Figure-4_-Police-recorded-violent-offences-by-offence-type-in-England-and-Wales-year-ending-March-2003-to-year-ending-March-2017-404x394.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Crimestoppers wants youngsters in Cardiff to report violent crime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The charity&#8217;s Ella Rabaiotti said \u201cWe are responding to emerging challenges around knife crime through providing information and resources and will continue to support campaigns to help make communities safer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gun crime in south Wales has gone up by 80% over the past five years, figures show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18968"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19029,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18968\/revisions\/19029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}