{"id":6487,"date":"2026-10-31T00:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/31\/st-louis-selected-for-major-doj-crime-funding\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T00:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:14:30","slug":"st-louis-selected-for-major-doj-crime-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/31\/st-louis-selected-for-major-doj-crime-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Selected for Major DOJ Crime Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Federal Model Cities Initiative will direct nearly $300 million to four jurisdictions, including St. Louis, to strengthen law enforcement, modernize technology, and address violent crime. ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 30, 2026 (STL.News) The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that St. Louis has been selected as one of four jurisdictions nationwide to share nearly $300 million in federal funding through its Model Cities Initiative, a major investment designed to combat violent crime, strengthen law enforcement capabilities, and improve public safety. The four selected jurisdictions are: St. Louis, Missouri Jacksonville, Florida Jackson, Mississippi East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana The<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/st-louis-selected-for-major-doj-crime-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Model Cities Initiative will direct nearly $300 million to four jurisdictions, including St. Louis, to strengthen law enforcement, modernize technology, and address violent crime. ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 30, 2026 (STL.News) The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6487","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\/6487","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=6487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6489,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions\/6489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}