{"id":183673,"date":"2026-03-09T01:54:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/183673\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T01:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:54:35","slug":"jacksonville-beach-heightens-law-enforcement-presence-during-spring-surge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/183673\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Beach heightens law enforcement presence during spring surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Jacksonville Beach Police Department is making sure people know they plan to be outside regulating heightened crowds over the weekends as the warm weather and events draw more people to the coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a post Saturday afternoon, the police department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/16nAQMC1z2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:shared a photo;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">shared a photo<\/a> of a large number of officers gathering, with the caption, &#8220;Come enjoy the beach. But if your plans include fighting, damaging property, blocking roads, or breaking the law \u2014 don\u2019t. We\u2019re ready.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Some Jacksonville beachgoers tell us they\u2019re not surprised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt\u2019s just heightened security,\u201d Shannon Williams said. \u201cI understand what happened last week, there was like a shooting, so I understand what\u2019s going on. They\u2019re just trying to keep people safe and keep people having a good time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Recently, both the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office and Jacksonville Beach Police Department have reported dealing with large gatherings of young people, or \u201cteen takeovers,\u201d that have resulted in fights and shootings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Most recently, five people, ages ranging from 15 to 18, suffered non-life-threatening injuries in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/breaking-down-happened-during-februarys-175404674.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:shooting during one Jacksonville Beach takeover;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shooting during one Jacksonville Beach takeover<\/a> in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jacksonville Beach police say they\u2019ll be in a position to handle anything that transpires over the weekends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Some other beachgoers share a different opinion on the increased number of officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI always feel safe out here,\u201d Eli Collins said. \u201cThe only thing makes me feel different is the cops. I feel like they shouldn\u2019t be here, and when there\u2019s a teen takeover\u2014I feel like it\u2019s the parents not doing their job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Despite the inevitable spring surge crowd, JBPD tells us they\u2019re fully staffed and reiterating zero tolerance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Beach Police Department is making sure people know they plan to be outside regulating heightened crowds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,2130,118,117,86457],"class_list":{"0":"post-183673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-jacksonville","9":"tag-jacksonville-beach","10":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","11":"tag-jacksonville-news","12":"tag-shannon-williams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}