{"id":5051,"date":"2026-09-11T07:57:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T12:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/riverview-police-dissolves-as-county-takes-over\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T07:58:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T12:58:01","slug":"riverview-police-dissolves-as-county-takes-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/riverview-police-dissolves-as-county-takes-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Riverview Police Dissolves as County Takes Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/woJQKIWV5ZY\/maxresdefault.webp)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Riverview Police Department dissolves; county police to handle emergency calls\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/woJQKIWV5ZY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> RIVERVIEW, MO \u2013 September 11, 2026 (STL.News) The Riverview Police Department has dissolved, leaving the St. Louis County Police Department to handle emergency police calls in the small north St. Louis County municipality after city leaders met behind closed doors to discuss financial decisions. The development represents a major change in public safety for Riverview, a community of roughly 2,500 residents along the Mississippi River in north St. Louis County. FOX 2 reported Thursday night that the Riverview Police Department had dissolved following a closed-door meeting involving city leadership and financial matters. St. Louis County Police will now<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/riverview-police-dissolves-as-county-takes-over\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIVERVIEW, MO \u2013 September 11, 2026 (STL.News) The Riverview Police Department has dissolved, leaving the St. Louis County Police Department to handle emergency police calls in the small north St. Louis County municipality after city leaders met behind closed doors&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5053,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions\/5053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}