{"id":1076,"date":"2014-10-01T18:14:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T23:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wordpress\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2014-10-04T22:29:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T03:29:02","slug":"cops-meet-block-basketball-tournament-in-allentown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"COPS MEET BLOCK BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT IN ALLENTOWN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first ever Cops Meet Block Basketball Tournament is coming to Allentown this weekend at Cedar Creek Park.\u00a0 The event, which will be held from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 5<sup>th<\/sup>, will pit local youth against Police Officers to promote positive interaction with Law Enforcement and young adults.\u00a0 Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski and Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald will be special guests.<\/p>\n<p>Several Police Departments around the country have received positive feedback from the community for blocking off streets in high crime rate neighborhoods, and holding impromptu basketball games.\u00a0\u00a0 Police officers believe the interaction helps to build trust and grow relationships within the community, which lowers the crime rate.<\/p>\n<p>Free Hot Dogs and Beverages will be served.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Cops Meet Block Basketball Tournament<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1178568932\">3 p.m. to 5 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-term=\"goog_1178568933\">Sun., October 5, 2014<\/span><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 Cedar Creek Park Basketball Courts<\/p>\n<p>North Ott St. and Parkway Boulevard<\/p>\n<p>Allentown, PA<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Contact:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Mick Dee<\/p>\n<p>Media Coordinator<\/p>\n<p>Seven Points Consulting<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"tel:%28610%29%20841-3733\">(610) 841-3733<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:mdee@7pointsconsulting.com\">mdee@7pointsconsulting.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first ever Cops Meet Block Basketball Tournament is coming to Allentown this weekend at Cedar Creek Park.\u00a0 The event, which will be held from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=1076\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COPS MEET BLOCK BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT IN ALLENTOWN<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[29,2,481],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2","tag-allentown","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-press-release"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/copsbb2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}