The Problem of the New York Police by Michael Greenberg

The Problem of the New York Police

The New York Police Department’s Intelligence Division appears to have assembled a kind of municipal CIA—an NYCIA, if you will. The full extent of its activities, and the cost to civil liberties, will probably not be revealed for many years, if they are ever fully known at all. By then, the damage may be irreversible. And yet it is far from clear whether any innocent lives will have been saved.

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