{"id":2264,"date":"2007-04-11T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/04\/thank_you_america_for_helping_us_catch_pickpockets_and_for_finally_being_able_to_correctly_identify_suicide_bombers_long_after_the_fact.html"},"modified":"2007-04-11T10:00:37","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T18:00:37","slug":"thank_you_ameri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/thank_you_ameri.html","title":{"rendered":"Thank You America For Helping Us Catch Pickpockets . . . And For Finally Being Able To Correctly Identify Suicide Bombers Long After The Fact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently for those in charge, distinctions between &#8220;everyday crime&#8221; and terrorism have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/local\/am-cameras0411,0,1787789.story?coll=am-local-headlines\">all but disappeared<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Thirty-six high-tech cameras will be installed at three subway stops in Astoria as part as of an anti-terror security plan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What began as an anti-terror initiative in response to both 9\/11 and the bombings in London has now proven to be a very successful tool to combat everyday crime,&#8221; State Assemb. Michael Gianaris (D-Queens) said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The cameras, paid for with $1.7 million in state and federal funds, will be installed at the Broadway, 30th Avenue and Astoria Boulevard stops along the N\/W line. Each station will be outfitted with 12 cameras, most of them positioned at the entrances and exits.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Queens\/Brooklyn), who worked with Gianaris to secure funding for the cameras, said a 2003 al-Qaida plot to release poisonous gas in the subways shows how vulnerable the system is.<\/p>\n<p>But Gene Russianoff, staff attorney for the Straphangers Campaign, said he isn&#8217;t convinced adding a few dozen cameras will improve safety. But, he added, &#8220;It&#8217;s like chicken soup, it can&#8217;t hurt.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Am I just becoming ridiculously stupidly civil rights- minded now that the threat of terrorism is gone?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently for those in charge, distinctions between &#8220;everyday crime&#8221; and terrorism have all but disappeared: Thirty-six high-tech cameras will be installed at three subway stops in Astoria as part as of an anti-terror security plan. &#8220;What began as an anti-terror initiative in response to both 9\/11 and the bombings in London has now proven to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264","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=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}