{"id":706,"date":"2006-02-16T10:14:49","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T18:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/new_yorks_finest_receiving_food_stamps.html"},"modified":"2006-02-16T10:14:49","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T18:14:49","slug":"new_yorks_fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/new_yorks_fines.html","title":{"rendered":"New York&#8217;s Finest Receiving Food Stamps?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recruits join the police force for many reasons, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/391755p-332264c.html\">probably not for the fantastic starting pay<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>At least one police recruit has asked for food stamps because of the NYPD&#8217;s paltry starting pay &#8212; prompting Mayor Bloomberg yesterday to blast the police union again for signing off on the $25,100 annual salary.<\/p>\n<p>No recruits have apparently received food stamps, and it was unclear if any could qualify. Bloomberg spokesman Jordan Barowitz said it was &#8220;virtually impossible&#8221; for any recruit to meet the guidelines for the stamps.<\/p>\n<p>During their six months in the Police Academy, recruits earn about $370.17 after taxes each week. The salary, the lowest in two decades, was created by the latest contract between Patrolmen&#8217;s Benevolent Association and City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Bloomberg said the pay was created &#8220;at the request of the PBA.&#8221; &#8220;They wanted to move monies from those who hadn&#8217;t joined the department to those who have been there a long time,&#8221; he said. &#8220;[I] did not think it was good policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>An NYPD official, who asked not to be identified, said one recruit has asked about getting food stamps. But sources close to recruits said as many as a dozen had applied.<\/p>\n<p>Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the academy has lost 6% of its class so far, compared with 4% of the previous class, which earned more money.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recruits join the police force for many reasons, but probably not for the fantastic starting pay: At least one police recruit has asked for food stamps because of the NYPD&#8217;s paltry starting pay &#8212; prompting Mayor Bloomberg yesterday to blast the police union again for signing off on the $25,100 annual salary. No recruits have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","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=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}