{"id":173036,"date":"2026-04-22T17:51:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173036\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:51:20","slug":"pittsburgher-wants-better-protection-after-car-break-ins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173036\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgher wants better protection after car break-ins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Downtown resident is calling for better police protection after waking up to find his vehicle broken into<\/p>\n<p>Mike Johnston tells KDKA Radio\u2019s Marty Griffin says he went outside on the 900 block of Penn Avenue Wednesday morning and saw five vehicles with their windows smashed.<\/p>\n<p>Johnston says he\u2019s just a block from the newly opened Arts Landing. <\/p>\n<p>He says that he&#8217;s ready to give up on hope that anything will be done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got to go get the window fixed, that\u2019s 350 bucks. I\u2019m getting ready to put a sign in my window, \u2018the door is open, don\u2019t break the window\u2019,\u201d said Johnston.<\/p>\n<p>He says police eventually came and took his report, but they told him it&#8217;s been a busy week due to the Draft.<\/p>\n<p> We have reached out to Pittsburgh Police and are awaiting a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Downtown resident is calling for better police protection after waking up to find his vehicle broken into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77599,4623,73,75,74,745,6967],"class_list":{"0":"post-173036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-car-break-in","9":"tag-downtown-pittsburgh","10":"tag-pittsburgh","11":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","12":"tag-pittsburgh-news","13":"tag-pittsburgh-police","14":"tag-vehicle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173036","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=173036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}