{"id":1209,"date":"2006-06-23T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/i_cant_wait_for_the_new_nyc-tv_series_operation_exposure.html"},"modified":"2006-06-23T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-23T17:24:00","slug":"i_cant_wait_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/i_cant_wait_for.html","title":{"rendered":"I Can&#8217;t Wait For The New NYC-TV Series &#8220;Operation Exposure&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This sting operation seems strangely satisfying to read about, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/sleazy_rider_sting_regionalnews_philip_messing_and_jeremy_olshan.htm\">mesmerizing like a bug zapper<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Subway gropers, beware &#8212; next time you cop a feel, you might be feeling a cop.<\/p>\n<p>A baker&#8217;s dirty dozen has been busted for rubbing, grabbing and flashing women on crowded rush-hour trains in a new undercover sting dubbed Operation Exposure.<\/p>\n<p>The 13 MetroCads didn&#8217;t realize their victims were undercover officers, police said, because the cops were posing as businesswomen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These four women were dressed as any other woman on the subway,&#8221; a source said.<\/p>\n<p>The 13 suspects were charged with forcible touching or public lewdness, while a 14th was nabbed for grand larceny &#8212; all during the morning and evening rush hours of May 23 and 24, Transit Bureau Chief James Hall revealed yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a 36-hour period, we locked up 14 men,&#8221; Hall told the New York City Transit Riders Council.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not robbery, it&#8217;s not pickpocketing, but to me, this is a heavy quality-of-life crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Operation Exposure was created in response to an increase in complaints by women, many of whom have fought back by snapping camera-phone pictures of the subway perverts and posting them online on blogs such as Hollaback.<\/p>\n<p>The undercover cops rode the numbered lines in Manhattan during rush hours, sometimes spotting the gropers &#8212; and sometimes falling victim to them.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sting operation seems strangely satisfying to read about, mesmerizing like a bug zapper: Subway gropers, beware &#8212; next time you cop a feel, you might be feeling a cop. A baker&#8217;s dirty dozen has been busted for rubbing, grabbing and flashing women on crowded rush-hour trains in a new undercover sting dubbed Operation Exposure. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,40,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-huzzah","category-insert_muted_trumpets_sad_wahwah_here","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}