'What?' Confused 911 caller outs NYPD spying in NJ
Source: Associated Press
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- It's an audiotape the New York Police Department hoped you would never hear.
A building superintendent at an apartment complex just off the Rutgers University campus called the New Brunswick Police 911 line in June 2009. He said his staff had been conducting a routine inspection and came across something suspicious.
"What's suspicious?" the dispatcher asked.
"Suspicious in the sense that the apartment has about - has no furniture except two beds, has no clothing, has New York City Police Department radios."
Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NYPD_INTELLIGENCE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-07-25-05-20-17
Posted here because its AP's lead news which I therefore assume to be LBN.
rfranklin
(13,200 posts)Everybody's snooping in everybody else's business.
JoeyT
(6,785 posts)It's to make sure that, among other things, you don't have garbage piled halfway up the walls breeding a roach colony that will infest everyone in the building.
Trillo
(9,154 posts)who may incorrectly believe their rent money grants them privacy from snoopy neighbors.
This architect pretty much summed up your scenario:
JoeyT
(6,785 posts)the landlord's problem. If they allow it to come to that, it can cost thousands of dollars.
Changing batteries in smoke detectors and inspecting fire extinguishers are also the landlord's problem.
It's why I won't rent an apartment.
obamanut2012
(26,142 posts)Not unusual. They let you know a day or two ahead of time (which is the law).
xchrom
(108,903 posts)SkatmanRoth
(843 posts)Of course the secretary will disavow any knowledge of their actions.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)for a very long time.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)The fish rots from the head on down.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)"The NYPD has infiltrated and photographed Muslim businesses and mosques in New Jersey, monitored the Internet postings of Muslim college students across the Northeast and traveled as far away as New Orleans to infiltrate and build files on liberal advocacy groups."
obamanut2012
(26,142 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Wow..when did jurisdiction become an a non-issue?
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)coming right up hot and steamy.
RC
(25,592 posts)Anywhere in the country? On what legal grounds? On whose authority? And why would they think they even have that authority in the first place, no matter who 'authorized it'?
What about states laws of other states? To say nothing about Federal laws.
Blue Meany
(1,947 posts)to pursue our foes: who is going to stop us?
RC
(25,592 posts)Rules are for others, not us, U.S.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)go figure.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Vigilantes? Are they being paid for not acting as police? If so, by whom?
Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)Exactly- if they're not acting as police, just what are they acting as? I mean, they're using all those resources, stashing all those resources, and just doing...whatever they want.
Citizens are surely paying their salaries for that. But supposedly they're not police?
PB
lostnote12
(159 posts)....nice placemat at the local eatery, a little mess, just wad it up and toss it away....set the table for another cosmetic experience!!!.....geeshh
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Okay, forget legal jurisdiction, state borders, etc. Now if there were tips that the people being surveilled were operating in NYC and commuting back to New Brunswick, I guess. I don't see anything weird about the apartment. Its just the location is out of place. It's a glimpse into the way these things are done.
The landlord made a good call, suspecting terrorists in that apartment, just getting a piece of ground to plan operations. Unlike a working person, who can't afford a place to hang out and plan trouble, not a contributing citizen to the community. Could have been a drug hangout, a crash pad, is what it was. What's ironic is that the police and criminal behavior and actions seem the same in one regard. Just on different teams.
All that very loose speculation aside, how much did this cost and where did the money come from? One of the powerful brokerage or banking concerns contributed a ton of money to the NYPD last year, as noted during Occupy events.
So what business is it of theirs? Is this slush fund money, that is not traced and is leading to a lot of rogue actions? Or does The King of New York, who claimed to have his own private army, believe he has the right to expand his territory?
This is almost amusing, except you realize that people are doing without, social services are being cut, and the land and authority to act as landlords is being sold off to foreign interests without a peep in the media. There is nothing in this that says we are doing business as usual stuff. I really want to know how much money this cost.
EmeraldCityGrl
(4,310 posts)Bloomberg governs like a dictator. I can't believe the people of New York put up with his
dictates. Didn't he have the law change to allow him to "serve" an additional term? When this
term expires will the law be changed once again to accommodate his continued rule over
New York?
NYPD should stay in their own jurisdiction and quit using tax payer dollars for some private
war against American Muslims.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)If not and out and out Fascist. His end run around the election laws. All the crap he has the NYPD pull, the treatment of Occupy, Stop and Frisk, and so forth.
Yet when Bloomberg starts riding his Gun Prohibitionist horse plenty of Progressives clap like seals.
JoeyT
(6,785 posts)We're supposed to clap like seals for that too. Can't have those goddamned poor peasants deciding what THEY want to eat.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)...YOUR tax dollars at work.
When exactly will Americans seriously (as in using their votes) to put a stop to crap by these screwball "police" departments?
Do we need police? Yes. Do we need them to keep us safe? Yes. Do we need police spying on and beating
average Ameicans? Uhhh, no.