{"id":866,"date":"2011-07-06T20:13:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T20:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.council.nyc\/press\/?p=866"},"modified":"2016-12-12T20:14:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T20:14:02","slug":"statement-by-council-speaker-christine-c-quinn-re-swearing-in-of-1635-new-york-city-police-department-recruits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2011\/07\/06\/866\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn re: Swearing in of 1,635 New York City Police Department Recruits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statement by Speaker Christine C. Quinn:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to congratulate the more than 1,600 New Yorkers who were sworn in today to become the newest additions to New York\u2019s Finest.  Joining the NYPD is among the highest forms of public service, and the dedication and diversity of this group of recruits truly reflects all that makes our city great.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m also proud that the City Council was able to play a key role in protecting this class of police recruits as part of this year\u2019s budget negotiations.  The NYPD deserves tremendous credit for making our city the safest big city in America, and if we want to keep it that way, we need to give them every resource we can.  I want to thank Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Kelly for continuing to work with us to keep public safety a top priority in our City\u2019s budget, and for all they do to keep New Yorkers safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement by Speaker Christine C. Quinn:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to congratulate the more than 1,600 New Yorkers who were sworn in today to become the newest additions to New York\u2019s Finest.  Joining the NYPD is among the highest forms of public service, and the dedication and diversity of this group of recruits truly reflects all that makes our city great.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2011\/07\/06\/866\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}