{"id":6589,"date":"2026-11-03T21:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T03:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/brighter-side-of-blue-revisits-slmpds-scat-unit\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T21:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T03:25:14","slug":"brighter-side-of-blue-revisits-slmpds-scat-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/brighter-side-of-blue-revisits-slmpds-scat-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighter Side of Blue Revisits SLMPD&#8217;s SCAT Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> New historical feature explores the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department\u2019s Street Corner Apprehension Team and its place in local law enforcement history. ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 November 3, 2026 (STL.News) The Brighter Side of Blue, a St. Louis-based law enforcement podcast and storytelling platform, has published a new historical feature examining one of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department\u2018s (SLMPD) notable specialized enforcement units: the Street Corner Apprehension Team, commonly known as SCAT. They also recently celebrated the podcast\u2019s 3rd anniversary. The article, titled \u201cSCAT: Inside SLMPD\u2019s Legendary Street Corner Team,\u201d explores the unit\u2019s history, its role in street-level<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/brighter-side-of-blue-revisits-slmpds-scat-unit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New historical feature explores the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department\u2019s Street Corner Apprehension Team and its place in local law enforcement history. ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 November 3, 2026 (STL.News) The Brighter Side of Blue, a St. Louis-based law enforcement&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6589","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\/6589","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=6589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6591,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589\/revisions\/6591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}