{"id":184481,"date":"2026-05-05T16:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184481\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T16:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:53:09","slug":"absolutely-identifiable-results-lehigh-county-da-says-social-programs-have-helped-reduce-crime-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184481\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Absolutely identifiable results&#8217;: Lehigh County DA says social programs have helped reduce crime | Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEHIGH COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin Holihan says social programs directly funded by his office are helping to reduce crime.<\/p>\n<p>From 2021 to 2024, he says Lehigh County saw a 69% drop in homicides.<\/p>\n<p>He attributes that achievement to programs like drug rehabilitation, youth sports, and job training for people reentering society after prison.<\/p>\n<p>He says he learned these programs work by watching what other cities did with the money they got from the federal government during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m stealing these ideas from the cities and the communities that did well with that ARPA funding, and have absolutely identifiable results,&#8221;\u00a0Holihan said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The number of four homicides in the city from 2024, in the city of Allentown, is the lowest number of homicides since, I think they said 1989.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin Holihan says social programs directly funded by his office&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,433],"class_list":["post-184481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehigh-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184481","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=184481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}