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Public oversight might finally start to catch up with the NYPD’s unparalleled city-wide network of surveillance cameras, license plate readers, gunshot detectors and environmental sensors.

ByAli Winston 12 minRead time

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Dec 2013

Concerns Over Private Firm Managing Some NYCHA Properties

The move to bring in outside management for some of the authority’s Section 8 properties is not the first, but comes at a sensitive time for the agency.

ByAli Winston 8 minRead time

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Dec 2012

Investigations

Why the City's Flood Maps Got It Wrong

The city’s evacuation zone maps used 2003 data. Some federal maps may have predicted a wider area of flooding. But scientists also made Sandy storm-surge predictions that were dwarfed when…

ByAli Winston 5 minRead time

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Jan 2012

Government

Oakland: Federal Ammo Running Short for War on Crime

Oakland is a place where urban America is confronting two questions: Does the federal government know how to help fight local crime? Can it afford to?

ByAli Winston 26 minRead time

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Apr 2010

Uncategorized

Secrecy Shrouds NYPD's Anti-Terror Camera System

In documents describing the multimillion-dollar Ring of Steel surveillance network, the redactions are as revealing.

ByAli Winston 9 minRead time

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Feb 2010

Uncategorized

Comptroller Moves To Rein In CityTime

An unfinished system to track city employees’ hours already costs 10 times what was budgeted. What now?

ByAli Winston 5 minRead time

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Jun 2009

Uncategorized

The Eyes Have It: NYPD Plans More Cameras

The police department plans to install hundreds of additional video surveillance cameras around Manhattan, and the entire city.

ByAli Winston 8 minRead time

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Mar 2009

Uncategorized

A Chance For Input On 3,000 New Police Cameras

Curious about the ‘Ring of Steel’ in lower Manhattan? The NYPD has made its privacy guidelines public.

ByAli Winston 9 minRead time

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Jul 2008

Justice

Marrying For Love? You'll Have To Prove It

For noncitizens, marrying an American is still one of the easier ways to get legal residency. But it’s gotten a lot harder.

ByAli Winston 17 minRead time

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Jul 2008

Government

On Camera: Surveillance In Transit, Schools

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…

ByAli Winston 18 minRead time

Ali Winston

City and State Lawmakers Move to Regulate Police Surveillance

Concerns Over Private Firm Managing Some NYCHA Properties

Why the City's Flood Maps Got It Wrong

Oakland: Federal Ammo Running Short for War on Crime

Secrecy Shrouds NYPD's Anti-Terror Camera System

Comptroller Moves To Rein In CityTime

The Eyes Have It: NYPD Plans More Cameras

A Chance For Input On 3,000 New Police Cameras

Marrying For Love? You'll Have To Prove It

On Camera: Surveillance In Transit, Schools

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