{"id":206,"date":"2018-07-02T18:15:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T22:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/?p=206"},"modified":"2018-07-02T18:15:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T22:15:12","slug":"the-history-and-downfall-of-the-disgraced-njspca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/2018\/07\/02\/the-history-and-downfall-of-the-disgraced-njspca\/","title":{"rendered":"The History and Downfall of the Disgraced NJSPCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-210\" src=\"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/PicsArt_06-05-11.01.25-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/PicsArt_06-05-11.01.25-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/PicsArt_06-05-11.01.25-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/PicsArt_06-05-11.01.25-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/PicsArt_06-05-11.01.25.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>This interesting and detailed piece provides much of the history of the disgraceful New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NJSPCA), a &#8220;gun club&#8221; of &#8220;wanna-be cops&#8221; who did little to help suffering, homeless and abused animals but clearly enjoyed pretending they were police.<\/p>\n<p>This band of clowns was finally dissolved as a &#8220;law enforcement&#8221; organization by a NJ law, sponsored by former NJ State Senator Ray Lesniak, passed without opposition and signed by Governor Christie on his last full day in office.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animals24-7.org\/2018\/06\/06\/will-regime-changes-underway-in-new-jersey-bring-a-new-day-for-animals\/\">HERE&#8217;s the piece itself.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.nj.us\/sci\/pdf\/SPCA-FollowUpReport.pdf\">And HERE&#8217;s the report<\/a><\/strong> from the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation titled &#8220;Wolves in Sheep&#8217;s Clothing. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This interesting and detailed piece provides much of the history of the disgraceful New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NJSPCA), a &#8220;gun club&#8221; of &#8220;wanna-be cops&#8221; who did little to help suffering, homeless and abused animals but clearly enjoyed pretending they were police. This band of clowns was finally dissolved as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/2018\/07\/02\/the-history-and-downfall-of-the-disgraced-njspca\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The History and Downfall of the Disgraced NJSPCA&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,38,36,27,13,39,150],"tags":[4,35,61,158,97,153,154,151,156,68,2,93,157,87,152,155,23,78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}