{"id":3273,"date":"2008-03-24T09:21:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T14:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/talk_of_budget_cuts_leads_to_inevitable_nypd_ctu_puff_piece.html"},"modified":"2008-03-24T09:21:55","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T14:21:55","slug":"talk_of_budget_cuts_leads_to_inevitable_nypd_ctu_puff_piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/talk_of_budget_cuts_leads_to_inevitable_nypd_ctu_puff_piece.html","title":{"rendered":"Talk Of Budget Cuts Leads To Inevitable NYPD CTU Puff Piece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Again, they act like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/73511\">this is a good thing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Working largely on its own, the NYPD has transformed an unmarked Brooklyn warehouse into a counterterrorism center with a national and global reach. In a second facility in Manhattan, the department runs undercover operations, recruits spies and houses intelligence analysts.<\/p>\n<p>Inside police headquarters is a high-tech situation room where rows of computer monitors give off a moody blue light and floor-to-ceiling television screens beam images from around the world. It&#8217;s staffed 24 hours a day with officers tracking local and international threats as well as the movements of as many as a dozen NYPD detectives on foreign assignments.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent interview there, Mr. Kelly and the NYPD&#8217;s deputy commissioner for intelligence, David Cohen, were interrupted by a liaison officer calling from the scene of a suicide bombing in Israel to report on a new technique employed by the bomber.<\/p>\n<p>Successes include the arrest in 2004 of two Muslim men on charges of plotting to blow up a subway station near the Republican National Convention, and the arrest and deportation in 2003 of two Iranian men who were filming a subway track in Queens, Mr. Cohen said. The former probe, in which one of the men pleaded guilty and the other received a 30-year prison term, was based on a year of undercover work by one of Mr. Cohen&#8217;s top detectives.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A subway station near the Republican National Convention . . . oh yeah, they&#8217;re talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/maybe_we_can_ca.html\">the two saps they entrapped back in 2004<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again, they act like this is a good thing: Working largely on its own, the NYPD has transformed an unmarked Brooklyn warehouse into a counterterrorism center with a national and global reach. In a second facility in Manhattan, the department runs undercover operations, recruits spies and houses intelligence analysts. Inside police headquarters is a high-tech [&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-3273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273","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=3273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}