{"id":40184,"date":"2025-08-22T13:01:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/greenville-county-sees-56-drop-in-violent-crime-after-task-force-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:01:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:01:04","slug":"greenville-county-sees-56-drop-in-violent-crime-after-task-force-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/greenville-county-sees-56-drop-in-violent-crime-after-task-force-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenville County Sees 56% Drop in Violent Crime After Task Force Crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jlDOuZsLiDo?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Violent crime is on the decline in Greenville County, South Carolina, thanks to an aggressive crackdown by the sheriff\u2019s office. The Violent Crimes Task Force\u2014now made up of up to 100 deputies\u2014was launched earlier this year after a tragic shooting claimed the life of a 5-year-old child. Since then, the sheriff reports a 56% decrease in violent crime, along with major drug and firearm seizures. Officials hope to keep this initiative running year-round, with increased efforts over the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violent crime is on the decline in Greenville County, South Carolina, thanks to an aggressive crackdown by the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":40185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}