{"id":7424,"date":"2014-03-06T10:56:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T15:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7424"},"modified":"2014-03-06T10:56:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T15:56:41","slug":"when_public_advocates_attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2014\/03\/when_public_advocates_attack.html","title":{"rendered":"When Public Advocates Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/06\/nyregion\/de-blasio-drops-challenge-to-law-on-police-profiling.html\">Another wise negotiating tactic on the part of the mayor&#8217;s team<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Anticipating that a new administration would drop Mr. Bloomberg&#8217;s suit, unions representing police officers filed their own challenge to the law along similar grounds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our opposition to this legislation has been and continues to be that it penalizes our members and the public rather than addressing bad policies,&#8221; Patrick J. Lynch, the president of the Patrolmen&#8217;s Benevolent Association, said.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not to continue that suit could figure into current contract negotiations between the police unions and the city, union officials said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another wise negotiating tactic on the part of the mayor&#8217;s team: Anticipating that a new administration would drop Mr. Bloomberg&#8217;s suit, unions representing police officers filed their own challenge to the law along similar grounds. &#8220;Our opposition to this legislation has been and continues to be that it penalizes our members and the public rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424","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=7424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7425,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424\/revisions\/7425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}