After 9/11, it seems fair for New York to want to take anti-terrorism into its own hands, even if that duplicates certain federal functions. (I'm not arguing it's effective. Just that it makes sense for the city to not entirely trust the Feds.)
Presumably to coördinate intelligence? (I'm guesing.)
If you don't trust the Feds, your options are to partner or duplicate that capability in house. Partnering seems the cheaper option.
Demonstrably, not the NYPD's.
> US does not allow foreign municipalities to install police departments on US soil
Sure. But those foreign countries allowed them. And again, nobody is granting the NYPD extraterritorial policing powers. They're there to collaborate on intelligence.
> Demonstrably, not the NYPD's.
Is it demonstrable? Allow me to skeptical until New York's Finest crack a case that the NSA, CIA, and FBI can't handle.
This looks like a cushy assignment for some people with union pull.
https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism/joint-terrorism-ta...
You want an actual relevant link? Here you go!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/nyregion/terrorism-nypd-i...
>Other law enforcement and intelligence agencies, particularly the F.B.I. and C.I.A., have opposed the department’s overseas deployment. Mr. Kelly was criticized for sharing information about terror attacks in London in 2005 and Mumbai in 2008. Federal officials have also complained about the police “freelancing” their own terrorism investigations.
What are these "terrorism" investigations? Jewelry store robberies.
>But Chief Galati said the mission of the program had shifted over time, and these days his officers were investigating other crimes. “As it evolved from terrorism, we started to see more and more criminal cases coming up,” Chief Galati said. He cited an instance where some of the $800,000 worth of watches taken in a December 2017 gunpoint robbery from the A. Lange & Söhne boutique on Madison Avenue were tracked down to a pawnshop in Amman, Jordan. “The world is a small place,” Chief Galati said.
It's demonstrable that foreign intelligence is within the NYPD's purview given they're doing it. No claims were made about efficacy.
Also, I don't think the NYPD aims to crack cases the Feds can't. It's more about directing resources towards areas they believe the Fed's aren't monitoring effectively or won't commit the resources they believe it deserves. If something were picked up, the NYPD would loop in the Feds.
No. If an animal control officer starts delivering mail, that doesn’t mean mail delivery is now part of the Department of Fish and Game.
There is a terms for this: a bureaucratic overreach, wasteful government spending, a distraction.
What do you think a city cop can even do in a foreign country? What resource does the NYPD even have?? Who is going to say, “I can’t talk the local cops, or the local intelligence agency, nor can I tell the Americans directly, but maybe i can tell some foreign country’s local cop! But I can’t just tell them directly. If only this foreign country’s local police had an office here!”
An NYPD cop has less training and less resources than someone working for a federal intelligence agency. That’s just the truth. It’s a post-9/11 grift founded by former police commissioner, convicted felon, and embezzler, Bernie Kerik.
That’s what it is. It’s obvious, and it was obvious almost 23 years ago. Come on! The NYPD Israeli office isn’t even in the Israeli capital. It’s in a beach resort!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_Project_(investigati...
You see things like this and wonder how that money escapes scrutiny when everything else is debated endlessly.
https://www.cbp.gov/travel/preclearance
> Today, CBP has more than 600 officers and agriculture specialists stationed at 15 Preclearance locations in 6 countries: Dublin and Shannon in Ireland; Aruba; Bermuda; Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates; Nassau in the Bahamas; and Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, Victoria, and Winnipeg in Canada.
The French Border Police are quite different in attitude to the UK Border Force.
(in the US, even if transiting to another country you are required to clear US customs.)
To my knowledge, the NYPD doesn't patrol outside its borders. The international offices are for coördinating intelligence.
All the rest is just bullshit and security theater (Which NYC is exceedingly good at.)
Notify the Feds.
(Though I guess we can shoot down planes now? [1])
[1] https://nationalpost.com/news/nypd-able-to-shoot-down-planes...