{"id":4306,"date":"2009-01-15T09:07:38","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T14:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4306"},"modified":"2009-01-15T09:07:38","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T14:07:38","slug":"less_stimulus_than_stun_gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/less_stimulus_than_stun_gun.html","title":{"rendered":"Less Stimulus Than Stun Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The gargantuan NYPD uniformed police force may get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2009\/01\/15\/2009-01-15_bam_plan_may_mean_900_new_cops_for_nyc.html\">up to 900 new officers through the federal stimulus package<\/a>, a number higher than the entire Buffalo police force*:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Police commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday he would welcome the 900 extra cops that could come from President-elect Barack Obama&#8217;s proposed stimulus package.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any program that increases the number of police officers in the city, especially in a time of terrorism and at no cost to us, is good news,&#8221; Kelly told the Daily News. <\/p>\n<p>The incoming President&#8217;s latest $800 billion plan to jump-start the nation&#8217;s imperiled economy would earmark $1 billion to hire more than 13,000 cops across the nation. <\/p>\n<p>City police forces must apply for the money, which will be doled out in three-year block grants. <\/p>\n<p>The federal money likely will cover 75% of the cost of a new hire, said Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn\/Queens), who fought for extra police funding.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*See, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.buffalo.ny.us\/Home\/Mayor\/Archive_Press_Releases\/Leadership\/2008Archives\/January2008\/MayorBrownWelcomesNewBuffaloPoliceAcademyCadets\">for example<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gargantuan NYPD uniformed police force may get up to 900 new officers through the federal stimulus package, a number higher than the entire Buffalo police force*: Police commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday he would welcome the 900 extra cops that could come from President-elect Barack Obama&#8217;s proposed stimulus package. &#8220;Any program that increases the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306","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=4306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4307,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions\/4307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}