{"id":4963,"date":"2009-06-10T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4963"},"modified":"2009-06-10T07:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T12:55:00","slug":"no_its_not_a_will_smith_film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/no_its_not_a_will_smith_film.html","title":{"rendered":"No, It&#8217;s Not A Will Smith Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rather, it&#8217;s just <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/09\/counterterrorism-exercise-planned-tonight-in-queens\/\">the police department using up some of that extra cash lying around<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The city&#8217;s Police Department and the F.B.I. will collaborate tonight in a joint counterterrorism exercise in Queens, testing New York&#8217;s ability to intercept a so-called dirty bomb. <\/p>\n<p>Around 300 city police officers and 400 employees from the F.B.I. will work together in the exercise. The main events are scheduled to take place between 9 p.m. tonight and 4 a.m. on Wednesday morning on the Clearview Expressway.<\/p>\n<p>Police say traffic delays on the expressway are anticipated until 1 a.m. Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>During tonight&#8217;s exercise authorities intend to use a detection device to intercept a mock bomb in a vehicle on the expressway.<\/p>\n<p>Once the mock bomb is located, the aim is to transfer it to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn and practice the procedures required to make it safe.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>In 2007 the federal government created the Securing the Cities initiative, and pioneered the program in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of Securing the Cities was to establish a cordon of radiation sensors 50 miles outside New York to detect an inbound dirty bomb, and since 2007 the police have already received more than $53 million in Homeland Security Department grants to implement the project.<\/p>\n<p>However, this year&#8217;s federal budget proposed to eliminate Securing the Cities funding in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Mr. Kelly suggested that the timing of the exercise, demonstrating the potential to intercept a dirty bomb, is no co-incidence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The thing we are concerned about is the zeroing out of the Securing the Cities budget,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It is very germane to the exercise tonight.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather, it&#8217;s just the police department using up some of that extra cash lying around: The city&#8217;s Police Department and the F.B.I. will collaborate tonight in a joint counterterrorism exercise in Queens, testing New York&#8217;s ability to intercept a so-called dirty bomb. Around 300 city police officers and 400 employees from the F.B.I. will work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-makes_jack_bauer_scream_dammit","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963","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=4963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4964,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions\/4964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}