{"id":116087,"date":"2026-02-17T14:49:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/116087\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:49:18","slug":"jason-lando-sworn-in-as-the-new-police-chief-of-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/116087\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Lando sworn in as the new police chief of Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo of Jason Lando Courtesy of Justin Guido\/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)<\/p>\n<p>Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News<\/p>\n<p>(Pittsburgh, PA) Jason Lando was\u00a0sworn in as the new chief of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police\u00a0in the Steel City\u00a0on Friday.\u00a0Lando is a Pittsburgh native who\u00a0was unanimously approved to be appointed for this position on February 4th,\u00a02026\u00a0by the Pittsburgh City Council\u00a0after\u00a0spending\u00a0over twenty-one years as a commander with the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police. Lando also attended the Tree of Life Synagogue when he was growing up and directed operations there during the worst\u00a0anti-semitic\u00a0shooting in United States history\u00a0on October 27th, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo of Jason Lando Courtesy of Justin Guido\/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News (Pittsburgh, PA) Jason&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-116087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-pittsburgh","9":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","10":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}