Newspaper hires armed guards after publishing list of pistol permit holders

[Alan C.]

The Journal News is Armed and Dangerous

Guns are good for the goose but NOT for the gander.

A Clarkstown police report issued on December 28, 2012, confirmed
that The Journal News has hired armed security guards from New
City-based RGA Investigations and that they are manning the newspaper’s
Rockland County headquarters at 1 Crosfield Ave., West Nyack, through at
least tomorrow, Wednesday, January 2, 2013.

According to police reports on public record, Journal News Rockland
Editor Caryn A. McBride was alarmed by the volume of “negative
correspondence,” namely an avalanche of phone calls and emails to the
Journal News office, following the newspaper’s publishing of a map of
all pistol permit holders in Rockland and Westchester.

Due to apparent safety concerns, the newspaper then decided to hire
RGA Investigations to provide armed personnel to man the location.

Private investigator Richard Ayoob is the administrator of RGA. He
told the Clarkstown Police on Friday, December 28 that there had been no
problems on site at the Journal News headquarters despite the massive
influx of phone calls and emails.