I woke up a little while ago and my wife told me that all the subway trains are jammed up because the NYPD is checking every train.
I went to the website of the newspaper of record around here, The New York Times and found nothing about that but my wife had already been outside today (I work nights you know).
The NYPD has a full time one thousand member anti-terrorism task force that is I guess busy now keeping us all safe, like they did in Times Square on December 30 2009 when the NYPD had allowed an illegally parked white van to sit in the middle of Times Square for two days and nights.
It's good we have this special squad! Well, actually I'v always been fascinated and amused by all these specialized squads and their names. They even hae an anti-crime squad!
The ordinary cops who are not anti-terror or anti-crime cops are not the most observant people you'd want out there protecting you. Check out this rather sad story. I know it isn't news, but it's probably news to you.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/woman-missing-for-10-days-is-found-dead-steps-from-a-police-building/
I went to the website of the newspaper of record around here, The New York Times and found nothing about that but my wife had already been outside today (I work nights you know).
The NYPD has a full time one thousand member anti-terrorism task force that is I guess busy now keeping us all safe, like they did in Times Square on December 30 2009 when the NYPD had allowed an illegally parked white van to sit in the middle of Times Square for two days and nights.
It's good we have this special squad! Well, actually I'v always been fascinated and amused by all these specialized squads and their names. They even hae an anti-crime squad!
The ordinary cops who are not anti-terror or anti-crime cops are not the most observant people you'd want out there protecting you. Check out this rather sad story. I know it isn't news, but it's probably news to you.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/woman-missing-for-10-days-is-found-dead-steps-from-a-police-building/
Woman Missing for 10 Days Is Found Dead, Steps From a Police Building
By AL BAKER and KAREN ZRAICK
The body of a pregnant woman who had been missing for more than a week was found in the Bronx on Tuesday night, in a vehicle that was parked within 100 feet of a building used by the Police Department.
Yet the discovery of the woman, Gizela Andrade, 32, was not made by city police officers, but by a Mount Vernon police detective, Roberto Boncardo, according to the police in New York City and Mount Vernon, where the woman is from.
Detective Boncardo found the woman about 10:15 p.m. leaving a meeting with New York City Police Department detectives on the topic of a separate, robbery case, according to police officials.
“As he was in his car, he observed the vehicle,” Detective Sgt. Robert Scott of the Mount Vernon police said of the detective. “He recognized the vehicle and its license plate, so it was very sharp detective work.”
Officials said Ms. Andrade, 32, was alone, slumped in the driver’s seat of her white 2010 Toyota Venza.
The police in New York said the car was parked at the corner of Baldwin and Abbott Streets, within the boundaries of the 47th Precinct, and Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman, said it “was parked on the public street there” and not in a lot used by police officers who are based nearby, at 500 Abbot Street, which has offices used by narcotics and gang investigators.
It was not immediately clear whether Detective Boncardo had met with city police officers at 500 Abbot Street.
A New York City detective who works at that location said that Ms. Andrade’s sport utility vehicle had been parked less than 100 feet from the building’s entrance.
“It’s an embarrassment,” said the detective, who spoke on the condition that he not be identified by name because he was not authorized to speak about the case.
Sergeant Scott said it was not clear how long the car had been parked in the location. He said that Ms. Andrade, whose family had told investigators she suffered from Type 1 diabetes, was dressed in the same clothes she was apparently wearing when she disappeared from her home, at 8 Oakley Place in Mount Vernon, on Sept. 25.
On that date, Ms. Andrade had had a “verbal dispute” with her boyfriend, Sergeant Scott said.
“He went into another room, and when he came out, she was gone,” and so was her car, he said.
Sergeant Scott said that there were no signs of trauma on Ms. Andrade’s body when it was discovered on Tuesday night and that there was “no indication of foul play” in the case. A crew of Emergency Medical Service paramedics declared the woman dead at that location, the police said.
Ellen S. Borakove, a spokeswoman for the city’s medical examiner’s office, said an autopsy for Ms. Andrade was scheduled for Wednesday. Sergeant Scott said that Ms. Andrade, who worked as a baby sitter, was four months pregnant, according to her relatives, but that medical tests would be needed to verify it.
Meanwhile, Mount Vernon police officials have scheduled a news conference to discuss the case at 1:30 p.m. at their headquarters, at 2 Roosevelt Square North.
