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Inside America's Best Counterterror Force--The NYPD
Simon & Schuster
February 2009
On Sale: February 3, 2009
336 pages
ISBN: 1416552405
EAN: 9781416552406
Hardcover
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The NYPD is the best and most ambitious antiterror
operation in the world. Its seat-of-the-pants intelligence
is the gold standard for all others.
Christopher Dickey, who has reported on international
terrorism for more than twenty-five years, takes readers
into the secret command center of the New York City Police
Department's counterterrorism division, then onto the
streets with cops ready for the toughest urban combat the
twenty-first century can throw at them. But behind the
tactical shows of force staged by the police, there lies a
much more ambitious and controversial strategy: to go
anywhere and use almost any means to keep the city from
becoming, once again, Ground Zero. This is the story of the
coming war in America's cities and New York's shadow war,
waged around the globe to stop it before it begins. Drawing on unparalleled access to Police Commissioner Ray
Kelly and other top officials, Dickey explores the most
ambitious intelligence operation ever organized by a
metropolitan police department. Headed by David Cohen, who
ran the CIA's operations inside the United States in the
1980s and its global spying in the 1990s, the NYPD's
counterterrorism division had uptotheminute details of new
attacks set in motion to target Manhattan in 2002 and 2003. New York's finest are now seen by other police chiefs in
the United States as the gold standard for counterterrorism
operations and a model for even the FBI and the Department
of Homeland Security. Yet as New Yorkers have come to feel
safer, they've also grown worried about the NYPD's methods:
sending its undercover agents to spy on Americans in other
cities, rounding up hundreds of protesters preemptively
before the 2004 Republican convention, and using
confidential informants who may be more adept at plotting
terror than the people they finger. Securing the City is a superb investigative reporter's
stunning look inside the real world of cops who are ready
to take on the world and at the ambiguous price we pay for
the safety they provide.
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