Posted on 03/22/2017 1:26:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
New York City Police Department documents obtained by The Verge show that police camera teams were deployed to hundreds of Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street protests from 2011–2013 and 2016. Originally acquired through a Freedom of Information Law request by New York attorney David Thompson of Stecklow, Cohen & Thompson, the records are job reports from the NYPD’s Technical Assistance Response Unit (TARU) that document over 400 instances in which the unit’s video team attended, and sometimes filmed, demonstrations. More important than the records the NYPD turned over, however, are those that it claims it cannot find: namely, any documents demonstrating that legal reviews and authorizations of these surveillance operations took place.
While NYPD cameras have been regularly spotted at protests over the last six years, the frequency of their deployment and the departmental practices governing their use have remained unknown. Since mass protests broke out in New York City over the deaths of Mike Brown and Eric Garner at the end of 2014, Black Lives Matter activists have pointed to the constant presence of cameras as one of the NYPD’s primary means of spying on the movement, in addition to the presence of undercover officers.
According to Interim Order 22, the NYPD’s guidelines for the filming of public activities, the department’s deputy commissioner of legal matters is supposed to review police requests for the filming of demonstrations, which include the operational objective of the recording, and forward approved requests to NYPD higher-ups. But in response to Thompson’s requests for these approved requests, the NYPD responded that no such records were located....
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If you do something in public, it’s not private.
I just hope they didn’t film inside one of the safe areas set up by that wonder mayor.
Cameras are good but the NYPD undercover operatives that are sprinkled among these groups are much more valuable.
By the looks at the freaks,losers,Communists and anarchists it looks like the NYPD had good reason to spy on them.Of course the FBI didn't participate because they were their boss's people!
Maybe it would have, a few years ago, before these same movements started promoting killing Cops....but now? NOPE.
And still failed to arrest, prosecute or imprison a single one of 'em.
All that effort into BLM and they decided not to put resources into Islamic terror or immigration concerns. Perhaps they would have been better suited trying to prevent the 2014 Queens hatchet attack and the 2016 New York and New Jersey bombings.
I bet the facial recognition software has been working non-stop ever since...
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