{"id":171,"date":"2005-03-11T10:08:37","date_gmt":"2005-03-11T18:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/03\/police_as_hitmen.html"},"modified":"2005-03-11T10:08:37","modified_gmt":"2005-03-11T18:08:37","slug":"police_as_hitme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/police_as_hitme.html","title":{"rendered":"Police as Hitmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two former NYPD detectives were arrested by federal agents for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/front\/story\/288944p-247258c.html\">basically working as mafia foot soldiers<\/a>.  Words like &#8220;stunning,&#8221; &#8220;shocking&#8221; and &#8220;disgraceful&#8221; are bandied about as well as the suggestion that they may be &#8220;the two most disgraceful police officers in history.&#8221; Skip the Law &#038; Order script &#8212; I&#8217;m guessing this will become an entire movie.<\/p>\n<p>And for your life-art imitation nexus, know that one of the cops became an actor specializing in tough guys.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio1\/news\/entertainment\/030404_sopranos.shtml\">It doesn&#8217;t seem unusual, either<\/a> (though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.co.za\/2003\/07\/28\/tvradio\/drug.htm\">to be fair<\/a>, he eventually beat the rap).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two former NYPD detectives were arrested by federal agents for basically working as mafia foot soldiers. Words like &#8220;stunning,&#8221; &#8220;shocking&#8221; and &#8220;disgraceful&#8221; are bandied about as well as the suggestion that they may be &#8220;the two most disgraceful police officers in history.&#8221; Skip the Law &#038; Order script &#8212; I&#8217;m guessing this will become an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","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=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}