{"id":250,"date":"2005-07-22T15:56:55","date_gmt":"2005-07-22T22:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=250"},"modified":"2005-07-22T15:56:55","modified_gmt":"2005-07-22T22:56:55","slug":"new-york-protects-its-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/22\/new-york-protects-its-own\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Protects Its Own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Yorker this week has a fantastic article by William Finnegan titled &#8220;The Terrorism Beat&#8221; about how the NYPD is defending our fair city, with or without the help of the Federal government.  Believe it or not, it makes you feel a lot better about our city&#8217;s security (all things considered).  I&#8217;m 100% voting for Bloomberg, if only to ensure that Ray Kelly stays commissioner.  Here is just one snipit from the article, in reference to the way the NYPD has transformed post 9\/11:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some of Kelly&#8217;s initatives were incursions into territory normally occupied by the FBI and the CIA.  And yet few objections were raised.  It was as if the Feds, reeling from September 11th, silently acknowledged New York&#8217;s right to take extraordinary defensive measures.  Or, as one senior police official said to me, &#8220;Do you think anybody in Washington has the balls to tell Ray Kelly he can&#8217;t do something he decides to do?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I created a PDF of the aritcle but its over 15 MB so if you want to read it (its not available online) leave a comment or send me an <a href=\"mailto:jeff@sevensquared.com\">email<\/a> and I&#8217;ll mail you a copy.  Hell, I&#8217;ll even pay the postage, that&#8217;s how good the article is &#8211; if you live in NY you should read it.  &#8216;Nuff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Yorker this week has a fantastic article by William Finnegan titled &#8220;The Terrorism Beat&#8221; about how the NYPD is defending our fair city, with or without the help of the Federal government. Believe it or not, it makes you feel a lot better about our city&#8217;s security (all things considered). I&#8217;m 100% voting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[455,636],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-nyc","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}