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It's quite likely they had no idea. Easy to imagine a scenario where there is a company owning the building, one owning the cameras and maintenance, one owning
by TheFattestNinja 3y ago
It's quite likely they had no idea.
Easy to imagine a scenario where there is a company owning the building, one owning the cameras and maintenance, one owning the data/recording, all wrapped up in management partners mergers shells etc.
- version_five 3y agoWith government, unless it's an organization mature enough to do something deliberately covert, it's more likely theres so much bureaucracy to deal with that everybody knows who they are working for.
- jkaplowitz 3y agoThe NYPD does do deliberately covert things including counterintelligence. No information one way or another whether that’s true in this case.
- Eumenes 3y agothere are a lot of rich foreign nationals in NYC, so its no surprise
- emodendroket 3y agoThe NYPD has covert operations not only all over the country but in many foreign countries so I'd say they're operating at a pretty high level of sophistication in that sense.
- formerly_proven 3y agoApparently referring to the “International Liaison Program” run by the “NYPD Intelligence Bureau“ which has only executive oversight and is funded by the “New York City Police Foundation” instead of the city itself.
- PaulWaldman 3y agoAre NYPD personnel sent outside their jurisdiction to fulfill these roles? Or do they contract it out?
- emodendroket 3y ago> Through its International Liaison Program, the Intelligence Bureau posts officers in law enforcement agencies in major cities around the world. https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/investigative/intelligence.page https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/investigative/intellig...
- toomanyrichies 3y agoI was curious about this so I did some Googling. Apparently it's called the International Liaison Program, a subdivision of the Department Intelligence Bureau. More info here. [1] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Department_Intelligence_Bureau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Departmen...
- actionfromafar 3y agoIt really is Gotham, isn’t it?
- nextaccountic 3y agoShouldn't the NYPD be in charge of local stuff and leave this to the FBI?