CIA helps develop NYPD intelligence program

http://news.yahoo.com/cia-help-nypd-...090019915.html


Shades of the KGB/GRU?

I'm really disturbed by a number of things reported here.

Reason # 48959084509 to avoid NYC

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Originally Posted by TFOGGER

http://news.yahoo.com/cia-help-nypd-...090019915.html


Shades of the KGB/GRU?

I'm really disturbed by a number of things reported here.

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It's all for the greater good.... [Bang]

Intelligent and NY in the same reference?
I think something smells.

On one hand, I don't like the idea of state employees being trained at a federal level to do a state job. I don't like the idea of pseudo-CIA ops being done in country on whoever they want for whatever reason they can justify it with on the report. I don't like the precedent this sets for future ops on other target groups, such as "right wing extremists."
I DO, however, think that having undercovers hanging around in mosques, hookah bars, places with high Muslim traffic is a GREAT idea. Having intel reports of all of the mosques in the area, major players in the Muslim community, etc. is a GREAT idea.


If we just outlawed Islam we wouldn't have this situation.... [Coffee]

Reading further...

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Originally Posted by Article

NYPD's intelligence operations do not stop at the city line.


In June 2009, a New Brunswick, N.J., building superintendent opened the door to apartment No. 1076 and discovered an alarming scene: terrorist literature strewn about the table and computer and surveillance equipment set up in the next room.


The panicked superintendent dialed 911, sending police and the FBI rushing to the building near Rutgers University. What they found in that first-floor apartment, however, was not a terrorist hideout but a command center set up by a secret team of New York Police Department intelligence officers.


From that apartment, about an hour outside the department's jurisdiction, the NYPD had been staging undercover operations and conducting surveillance throughout New Jersey. Neither the FBI nor the local police had any idea.


The NYPD has gotten some of its officers deputized as federal marshals, allowing them to work out of state. But often, there's no specific jurisdiction at all.


Cohen's undercover squad, the Special Services Unit, operates in places such as New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, officials said. They can't make arrests and, if something goes wrong — a shooting or a car accident, for instance — the officers could be personally liable. But the NYPD has decided it's worth the risk, a former police official said.


With Police Commissioner Kelly's backing, Cohen's policy is that any potential threat to New York City is the NYPD's business, regardless of where it occurs, officials said.

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So they have their own little CIA...