{"id":3165,"date":"2008-02-27T09:42:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T14:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/the_fake_prada_window_shopping_theory_of_policing.html"},"modified":"2008-02-27T09:42:40","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T14:42:40","slug":"the_fake_prada_window_shopping_theory_of_policing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/the_fake_prada_window_shopping_theory_of_policing.html","title":{"rendered":"The Fake Prada Window Shopping Theory Of Policing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do the police need something to do? Because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/02272008\/news\/regionalnews\/knock_off_raid_99474.htm\">doing the fashion industry&#8217;s dirty work<\/a> seems like it has little to do with public safety*:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Cops launched a massive predawn raid on counterfeiters in Chinatown yesterday, seizing about $1 million in phony brand-name apparel. <\/p>\n<p>Sunglasses, watches and handbags with fake Coach, Prada and Rolex labels were taken from 32 stores in what Mayor Bloomberg called &#8220;one of the biggest takedowns ever of trademark counterfeiters.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been one of the most notorious knock-off shopping malls in the five boroughs,&#8221; Bloomberg said of the three-building strip along Canal Street.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/prada_hezbollah.html\">this link to public safety seems like a stretch for the NYPD to make<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do the police need something to do? Because doing the fashion industry&#8217;s dirty work seems like it has little to do with public safety*: Cops launched a massive predawn raid on counterfeiters in Chinatown yesterday, seizing about $1 million in phony brand-name apparel. Sunglasses, watches and handbags with fake Coach, Prada and Rolex labels were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order","category-manhattan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","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=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}