{"id":7067,"date":"2012-03-10T10:13:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T15:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7067"},"modified":"2012-03-10T10:13:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T15:13:54","slug":"dont_fire_ray_kelly_for_turning_the_new_york_city_police_department_into_a_shadow_cia_fire_him_for_being_so_bad_at_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/03\/dont_fire_ray_kelly_for_turning_the_new_york_city_police_department_into_a_shadow_cia_fire_him_for_being_so_bad_at_it.html","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Fire Ray Kelly For Turning The New York City Police Department Into A Shadow CIA, Fire Him For Being So Bad At It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know which is worse, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/nypd-secret-files-muslim-american-businesses-documents-show-article-1.1036030\">that the NYPD kept secret files on businesses solely based on their religious affiliation<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/nypd-wrongly-listed-businesses-muslim-linked-part-surveillance-article-1.1036538\">that they did such a shitty job doing it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The owners of most of the establishments listed in the &#8220;Syrian Locations of Concern Report&#8221; told The Daily News Friday they are neither Syrian nor Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s pretty comical that my store would be in this report,&#8221; said David Idy, owner of Kings Row, a clothing store on Avenue U in Brooklyn. &#8220;I happen to be a Sephardic Jew. My family is from Egypt, but I was actually raised in Bensonhurst and consider myself an American.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cops also listed a Bronx barber shop called &#8220;Dino&#8217;s European Hair Style,&#8221; noting that its owner is Albanian and its close proximity to the North Bronx Muslim Center.<\/p>\n<p>Shop owner Sammy Eirovic said, &#8220;I&#8217;m not Albanian, I&#8217;m Montenegran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Honestly, I&#8217;m really surprised anybody would be spying on me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We just cut hair.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know which is worse, that the NYPD kept secret files on businesses solely based on their religious affiliation or that they did such a shitty job doing it: The owners of most of the establishments listed in the &#8220;Syrian Locations of Concern Report&#8221; told The Daily News Friday they are neither Syrian nor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_horrible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067","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=7067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7068,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions\/7068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}