{"id":402070,"date":"2026-08-09T21:22:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T21:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/402070\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T21:22:29","slug":"city-responds-to-downtown-boston-crime-surge-with-increased-police-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/402070\/","title":{"rendered":"City responds to Downtown Boston crime surge with increased police presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Following a recent spike in violence, including a murder on Boston Common, the neighborhood&#8217;s residents and business owners say robberies, shoplifting and drug dealing is an ongoing problem and they want the city to do more to address crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Downtown Boston Neighborhood Association co-founder Rishi Shukla tells WBUR&#8217;s Up Next that the city is responding to their pleas for help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a recent spike in violence, including a murder on Boston Common, the neighborhood&#8217;s residents and business owners&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-402070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}