{"id":21695,"date":"2018-12-10T18:10:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T18:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=21695"},"modified":"2018-12-10T18:17:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T18:17:14","slug":"cardiff-residents-live-in-fear-of-drug-related-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/cardiff-residents-live-in-fear-of-drug-related-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff residents live &#8220;in fear&#8221; of drug related crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Cardiff Councillor says he&#8217;s concerned about the rising number of young people getting involved in drug related crime in the city.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Cllr Ashley Lister, Assistant Cabinet member for Youth Services, says even &#8220;teenagers as young as 15 years old are getting involved.&#8221;\u00a0 It&#8217;s perceived to be an easy option to make some money and they are attracted in with the expensive lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>He says the problem has become more prevalent over the last year and that the issue is becoming more &#8216;visible&#8217; throughout Cardiff as drug dealers become more\u00a0blas\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the work being done to address the issue, Cllr Lister says there&#8217;s been a surge in anger, frustration and complaints from local residents.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve been complaining to him about the sense of fear they feel in their local community.<\/p>\n<p>He says some residents have openly said they want to move out of the area because they are concerned about the problems they are seeing on a daily basis.\u00a0Other residents have said they want to challenge the issue themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Lister says he does not endorse this behaviour and advised anyone with this concern to contact the police.\u00a0 He says &#8220;it&#8217;s criminal behaviour and it should therefore be brought to the attention of the police&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement\u00a0South Wales Police says the issue remains a daily priority for them and they&#8217;re taking action to tackle the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cardiff Councillor says he&#8217;s concerned about the rising number of young people getting involved in drug related crime in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744,750],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21695"}],"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\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21695"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21818,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21695\/revisions\/21818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}