New York City's Explosion in Police Repression and Surveillance Is a Threat to Us All

New York City's Explosion in Police Repression and Surveillance Is a Threat to Us All

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High-tech surveillance and undercover spying on protests by the NYPD have soared -- this is what happens when the "War on Terror" comes home.

One day in August, I walked into the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in lower Manhattan. Nearly three years before I had been locked up, about two blocks away, in "the Tombs" -- the infamous jail then named the Bernard B. Kerik Complex for the now-disgraced New York City Police Commissioner.

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We see a lot of posts on here about the supposed high level of police surveillance in the UK, when this is simply not the case.

It seems though, that it is the case in the US - and it's on the increase.

Land of the free?
I wonder.

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