{"id":2210,"date":"2007-03-19T09:52:29","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T17:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/03\/make_the_in-vest-ment_cheapskate.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T13:30:27","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T18:30:27","slug":"make_the_invest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/make_the_invest.html","title":{"rendered":"Make The In-Vest-Ment, Cheapskate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Auxiliary police officers &#8212; the kind killed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/send_unstable_p.html\">douchebag filmmakers<\/a> &#8212; are left unprotected because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/03182007\/news\/regionalnews\/volunteer_cops_left_exposed_regionalnews_angela_montefinise_____and_lorena_mongelli.htm\">the NYPD sent all its old bulletproof vests to Haiti<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>They asked for Mace. They didn&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n<p>They hoped to receive the NYPD&#8217;s old bulletproof vests after the department switched to new body armor last year. They didn&#8217;t &#8212; the vests were instead shipped to Haiti&#8217;s police officers.<\/p>\n<p>Now, after two auxiliary police officers were gunned down and killed in the line of duty, members of the part-time, volunteer force are hoping the city will rethink its position and provide them with better protection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now, if you&#8217;ve got a friend in the precinct who wants to give you an old vest, that&#8217;s how it&#8217;s done,&#8221; said John Hyland, president of the 4,800-member Auxiliary Police Benevolent Association. &#8220;The NYPD doesn&#8217;t provide the equipment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hyland said his organization objected when the Police Department shipped thousands of old vests to Haiti last year after it issued officers new body armor.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auxiliary police officers &#8212; the kind killed by douchebag filmmakers &#8212; are left unprotected because the NYPD sent all its old bulletproof vests to Haiti: They asked for Mace. They didn&#8217;t get it. They hoped to receive the NYPD&#8217;s old bulletproof vests after the department switched to new body armor last year. They didn&#8217;t &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thats_an_outrage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","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=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}