{"id":6681,"date":"2011-08-24T15:27:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T20:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6681"},"modified":"2011-08-24T15:27:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T20:27:28","slug":"and_while_the_city_lays_off_educators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/08\/and_while_the_city_lays_off_educators.html","title":{"rendered":"And While The City Lays Off Educators . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYPD Counter-Terrorism Unit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/officer_buttins.html\">roughly modeled on television&#8217;s 24 and, well, kind of weird<\/a>, is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2011\/08\/24\/2011-08-24_nypd_cops_cia_spy_on_new_york_mosques_muslim_neighborhoods_in_secret_demographic.html\">under the microscope<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>[An AP report] says the program to infiltrate Muslim communities was started by CIA veteran David Cohen, who was tapped in 2002 by Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, who thought 9\/11 proved the NYPD couldn&#8217;t rely on the feds to protect the city from terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen created a mini-CIA inside the NYPD, with spies and analysts and an international scope.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD has a big advantage over the CIA: a diverse pool of officers who could pass in any community in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Undercover officers called &#8220;rakers&#8221; went to hang out in bookstores, hookah bars and cafes, the AP said &#8212; an allegation the NYPD fiercely denied.<\/p>\n<p>After lawyers in the department said it might appear that police were building dossiers on innocent people, the cops began regularly shredding documents discussing &#8220;rakers,&#8221; the story said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/nypd_ctu_now_mo.html\">NYPD CTU, Now More Than Ever<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/and_nypd_ctu_th.html\">And NYPD CTU &#8212; Just So We&#8217;re Clear, This Totally Doesn&#8217;t Count As A &#8220;Foiled Terrorist Plot&#8221;<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/talk_of_budget_cuts_leads_to_inevitable_nypd_ctu_puff_piece.html\">Talk Of Budget Cuts Leads To Inevitable NYPD CTU Puff Piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYPD Counter-Terrorism Unit, roughly modeled on television&#8217;s 24 and, well, kind of weird, is now under the microscope: [An AP report] says the program to infiltrate Muslim communities was started by CIA veteran David Cohen, who was tapped in 2002 by Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, who thought 9\/11 proved the NYPD couldn&#8217;t rely on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-makes_jack_bauer_scream_dammit","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6681","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=6681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6682,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6681\/revisions\/6682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}