{"id":101697,"date":"2013-12-28T16:53:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T16:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/new-nyc-mayor-inherits-massive-counterterror-force-2\/"},"modified":"2013-12-28T18:14:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T18:14:50","slug":"new-nyc-mayor-inherits-massive-counterterror-force-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/new-nyc-mayor-inherits-massive-counterterror-force-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New NYC mayor inherits massive counterterror force"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tom Hays and Colleen Long<\/strong>
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At least 1,000 of the city’s 35,000 officers are within the counter-terrorism unit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

At a recent briefing in lower Manhattan, the New York Police Department gave an auditorium full of private security executives plenty to worry about.<\/p>\n

One of the NYPD’s intelligence analysts warned that New Yorkers have gone to fight in the Syrian civil war and could come back radicalized against the West. A high-ranking officer described drills testing the NYPD’s ability to respond to a dirty bomb attack. And a detective offered a detailed analysis of the deadly siege at a shopping mall in Nairobi, brashly challenging the Kenyan government’s claim that the gunmen were dead.<\/p>\n

The presentations demonstrated the nation’s largest police department’s determination to stay at the forefront of counterterrorism, even as the man who spearheaded the effort \u2014 Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly \u2014 is headed out the door.<\/p>\n

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Tom Hays and Colleen Long At least 1,000 of the city’s 35,000 officers are within the counter-terrorism unit. At a recent briefing in lower Manhattan, the New York Police Department gave an auditorium full of private security executives plenty to worry about. One of the NYPD’s intelligence analysts warned that New Yorkers have gone to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":101699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-101697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}