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...NYPD has, since 9/11, built up one of the most impressive intelligence organizations in the world. The Department has officers based in the U.K., Israel and Europe, among other places. It also has hundreds of linguists who speak Farsi, Arabic and Urdu. Its intelligence division is led by David Cohen, who spent 35 years...
...authors, Mitchell D. Silber and Arvin Bhatt, of the NYPD's intelligence division, spent months traveling the world and systematically analyzing the facts: who has participated in foiled and realized plots against the West? Where did they meet? What motivated them? And how did they go from being regular people, often citizens of Western nations, to radical violent extremists...
...past, the NYPD has been criticized for not sharing its intelligence widely, and it could have easily kept this report private and still reached its primary audience of law-enforcement officials. But it chose not to. "The NYPD knew it was going to draw some flak, as anything pertaining to domestic intelligence does and should. But we'd rather have the public debate, as noisy and rude as it may be, than have frightened acquiescence," Jenkins says. "Too much of the message to the American people has been a message of fear, without explanation. In order to really get this...
...could organize the history of TV dramas into B.T. and A.T.: Before Tony and After Tony. Before The Sopranos, TV drama was mainly divided between good guys and bad guys (with the odd exception like NYPD Blue's Andy Sipowicz). Tony Soprano and his followers on HBO, FX and elsewhere showed that audiences would follow villains with sympathetic qualities and heroes with addictive, self-destructive personalities. Move over, good guys and bad guys, these dramas said. Make room for the good...
...York City police department offers a model of sorts. The NYPD has officers based in 10 cities around the world, including London, Tel Aviv, Amman, Paris and Lyon, France. By building relationships with other police forces, the NYPD hopes to gather data about threats before they show up in New York City. "What we have to do is get as much information as we can and respond accordingly," says Commissioner Ray Kelly...