{"id":40081,"date":"2015-01-27T23:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=40081"},"modified":"2015-01-28T00:33:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T16:33:08","slug":"hundreds-of-gang-members-in-ottawa-but-number-of-illegal-guns-unknown-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/27\/hundreds-of-gang-members-in-ottawa-but-number-of-illegal-guns-unknown-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of gang members in Ottawa but number of illegal guns unknown: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40146\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40146\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/shutterstock_142478248.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40146\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/shutterstock_142478248.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/shutterstock_142478248.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/shutterstock_142478248-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ottawa police say they are unable to give a number on how many illegal guns are currently in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Staff Sgt. Ken Bryden &#8212; who heads the force&#8217;s Guns and Gangs Unit &#8212; could not offer a ballpark figure to the city&#8217;s Police Services Board on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He says officers are hampered by a lack of co-operation from witnesses when it comes to seizing the weapons.<\/p>\n<p>That makes it difficult to get a warrant and criminals can more easily move the guns as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Police did share numbers on gang membership with the board, reporting there are currently between 400 and 500 gang members in Ottawa, associated with 15 organizations.<\/p>\n<p>They say 83 suspected gang members were arrested last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa police say they are unable to give a number on how many illegal guns are currently in the city. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":40146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}