Cameras, Drones and X-Ray Vans: How Sept. 11 Transformed the N.Y.P.D

this paragraph just touches the surface of the diagnosis:

“ The department’s budget for intelligence and counterterrorism has more than quadrupled, spending more than $3 billion since 2006, and more through funding streams that are difficult to quantify, including federal grants and the secretive Police Foundation, a nonprofit that funnels money and equipment to the department from benefactors and donors.”

and if NYPD has it out for you.. they swat you:

“..the officers were there to arrest him on charges that he had assaulted an officer by yelling in her ear with a megaphone.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/nyregion/nypd-derrick-ing...

nothing like a cup of dunkin donuts and a healthy serving of Xrays into your skull from their mobile xray van to get you going!

and the UK I hear too. you cant go anywhere without a camera spying on you there.

tis the price you pay for feeling ‘safe’.