{"id":366984,"date":"2026-10-07T16:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T16:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366984\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T16:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T16:56:11","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-nypd-detectives-demand-stronger-protections-as-assaults-on-police-surge-50-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366984\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Nypd Detectives Demand Stronger Protections As Assaults On Police Surge 50 Nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">State leaders and the Detectives\u2019 Endowment Association held a press conference Wednesday to demand action after new FBI data shows a 50% surge in assaults on police nationwide.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Attendees urged lawmakers to strengthen protections against those who \u201cdeliberately crowd, threaten and interfere with officers on the job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The union says the bill would make it a misdemeanor to ignore a 15-foot safety buffer after a verbal warning.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The union says they need the space to make arrests safely and secure dangerous scenes.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Interference in those situations can escalate matters and put both officers and citizens at great risk, officials say.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Figures from the FBI showed officer assaults climb from 60,105 in 2020 to 90,178 in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State leaders and the Detectives\u2019 Endowment Association held a press conference Wednesday to demand action after new FBI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-366984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}