{"id":2176,"date":"2007-03-06T10:16:43","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T18:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/03\/and_nypd_ctu_--_just_so_were_clear_this_totally_doesnt_count_as_a_foiled_terrorist_plot.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T13:45:53","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T18:45:53","slug":"and_nypd_ctu_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/and_nypd_ctu_th.html","title":{"rendered":"And NYPD CTU — Just So We’re Clear, This Totally Doesn’t Count As A “Foiled Terrorist Plot”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time was, the crazy and insane could plot against public officials and few people — if anyone — would notice. Then you start throwing around terms like “beheading” and “blowing up” and all of the sudden you’re a teaser for the 11 o’clock news<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The undercover detective posing as a hired assassin sat across from his client in the Rikers Island visitation room last month and asked how he wanted the hit carried out.<\/p>\n

In hushed tones, the inmate, David Brown Jr. — a 6-foot-3-inch, 375-pound man with a beard streaked with white — gave the order.<\/p>\n

“I want his head chopped off,” he said.<\/p>\n

The target: The police commissioner, Raymond Kelly.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

On February 21, an undercover detective made a phone call to Brown in jail. Brown told the detective, whom he believed to be a professional hit man, that he was “fed up with the case where the guy got shot 50 times.”<\/p>\n

Mr. Kelly didn’t have the “initiative to prosecute the officers,” he said, according to a transcript of the conversation. “That kind of got me frustrated to the point where I want him murdered.”<\/p>\n

The two spoke three times, including once more on the phone on February 22, and then in person on February 23. Brown said he would pay $15,000 to have Mr. Kelly beheaded and another $50,000 for police headquarters to be blown up, police said. The detective advised him that blowing up a building could cost as much as $150,000. They agreed to talk again soon, police said.<\/p>\n

“I want them to feel like I’m a . . . terrorist,” he said, according to the transcript of the third and final encounter.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yup, that’ll get their attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time was, the crazy and insane could plot against public officials and few people — if anyone — would notice. Then you start throwing around terms like “beheading” and “blowing up” and all of the sudden you’re a teaser for the 11 o’clock news: The undercover detective posing as a hired assassin sat across from […]<\/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-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","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=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}