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NYPD Teams Up With Microsoft On Counterterrorism Tech Initiative

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New York City has entered into what it’s calling a strategic technology partnership with Microsoft Corp. to aggregate and analyze public safety data in real-time, and provide law enforcement officers with a comprehensive view of emerging terrorist threats and criminal activity.

Announced today by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYPD Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly during a press briefing inside the Lower Manhattan Security Command Center, the new Domain Awareness System will feed real-time data from the city’s existing infrastructure of security cameras, radiation detectors, license plate readers, and 911 calls onto a dashboard of large screen displays located at the command center. Keep reading →

 /  Published August 8, 2012 at 5:25 PM

Best Of 2011: Is It Time For the Feds to Rein In the NYPD?

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This is one in a series of articles highlighting Breaking Gov’s best stories of the past year. As we reflected on our 2011 coverage of innovation, technology and management amongst the federal agencies and workforce, this was among the stories that stood out as delivering key insight into the top issues facing today’s government community.

When it comes to proactive law enforcement, intelligence and counterterrorism operations, the New York City Police Department is viewed by many of its counterparts as among the most innovative and successful police departments in the nation’s history. Keep reading →

 /  Published December 30, 2011 at 12:00 PM

Government Data Centers Under Fire

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A nationwide network of 72 government-supported, state-run data centers used for sharing law enforcement and counterterrorism information are coming under increasing fire as federal budget cuts, intra-agency turf battles and Congressional scrutiny are raising fresh questions about their effectiveness.

Although the federal government has made significant progress in the last decade to improve terrorism-related information sharing, widely divergent operating practices in how information as assembled and used at these so-called data fusion centers have led some in Congress and others in the government to question their value. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 24, 2011 at 8:01 AM

Is It Time For The Feds To Rein In the NYPD?

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When it comes to proactive law enforcement, intelligence and counterterrorism operations, the New York City Police Department – the NYPD – is viewed by many of its counterparts as one of the most innovative and successful police departments in the nation’s history.

However, the NYPD has also gained another, more insidious reputation in recent years for what many regard as an unprecedented challenge to privacy and civil liberties in America and what others regard as overreach internationally. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 13, 2011 at 8:01 AM