Bronx
How Free? Liberties In Post-9/11 New York
Karen Loew |
Around the five boroughs, New Yorkers are divided over the freedom they have, what they are willing to give up and what they already may have lost.
Government
On Camera: Surveillance In Transit, Schools
Ali Winston |
A 1998 New York Civil Liberties Union survey identified 2,397 surveillance cameras at street level in Manhattan. In 2005, another NYCLU survey of Lower Manhattan, Greenwich Village, Chinatown and central Harlem found 4,468 cameras in those four districts alone.
Government
Amid the Surge: Security On Display
Jarrett Murphy |
Police are strikingly visible in post 9-11 New York City—in long lines of police cars, in body armor with machine guns in hand. Does all that firepower deliver more safety, or just more fear?
Government
Subway Searches Raise Questions Of Efficacy, Legality
Jarrett Murphy |
There’s no way of knowing if the subway bag searches are working; it’s supposed to be a deterrent, and a deterrent’s value is only evident when it fails.
Government
Immigrants Felt Brunt of U.S. Reaction
Jarrett Murphy |
The FBI generated a list of 7,600 people whose profiles shared similarities with the hijackers, and conducted some 3,200 interviews had taken place. Fewer than 20 people were arrested as a result of the interviews, none on terrorism charges.
Government
For Justice System, 9/11 Aftershocks
Jarrett Murphy |
Secret evidence, new anti-terrorism laws, and special restrictions on lawyers who handle terrorism cases are among the ways today’s criminal justice system differs from pre-9/11 days.
Government
Muslim Communities See Informers In Their Midst
Jarrett Murphy |
Saying there’s a serious threat that local Muslim youth will become radicalized, the NYPD dispatched informers to root out those who’ve turned against us—and perhaps to help foment the very plots that law enforcement then disrupts.
Government
The War on Terrorism—at the Library
Jarrett Murphy |
Section 215 of the Patriot Act amended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to allow the FBI to seek a broader range of “tangible items” like “books, records, papers, documents, and other items.”
Government
Infiltration, Mass Arrests Mark Policing Of Protests
Jarrett Murphy |
During the week of the 2004 Republican National Convention, the NYPD arrested more than 1,800 people for protesting—more than 1,100 of them on one day. As a whole, the arrests were the most seen at a U.S. protest in decades.
Government
After WTC Attacks, More Surveillance at Work
Ali Winston |
A 2005 survey found that keystroke monitoring was used by 36 percent of companies queried. Fifty-five percent of companies perused employee e-mail messages and 76 percent tracked websites visited by employees.
