{"id":1819,"date":"2026-10-15T05:23:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/2026\/10\/15\/operation-shanela-ii-17000-arrests-in-a-week-a-band-aid-or-a-breakthrough\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T05:23:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:23:55","slug":"operation-shanela-ii-17000-arrests-in-a-week-a-band-aid-or-a-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/2026\/10\/15\/operation-shanela-ii-17000-arrests-in-a-week-a-band-aid-or-a-breakthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Shanela II: 17,000 Arrests in a Week \u2013 A Band-Aid or a Breakthrough?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAPS arrests over 17,000 suspects in one week under Operation Shanela II<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the South African Police Service\u2019s Operation Shanela II boasts an impressive tally of 17,000 arrests, the sheer scale raises questions about effectiveness, due process, and long\u2011term impact on crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}