{"id":198954,"date":"2026-05-21T16:09:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198954\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T16:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:09:23","slug":"meeting-pittsburgh-leaders-combat-teen-violence-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198954\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting: Pittsburgh Leaders Combat Teen Violence Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh City Council members and community stakeholders held a meeting on Wednesday to address disturbances involving large groups of teens. <\/p>\n<p>Councilman Khari Mosley said Pittsburgh is one of many cities around the country that is experiencing a rise in the so-called teen takeovers involving juveniles and young adults that can sometimes turn violent.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion comes after several incidents involving juveniles, including an assault at Sephora last week in East Liberty. <\/p>\n<p>Mosley says it starts with ensuring kids know the difference between right and wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month the city implemented a temporary policy in Market Square, requiring anyone under 18 to accompanied by someone over 21 during Thursdays through Sundays between 3 pm and midnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh City Council members and community stakeholders held a meeting on Wednesday to address disturbances involving large groups&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4623,73,75,74,85406,109],"class_list":["post-198954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-downtown-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-teen-crime","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198954","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=198954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}