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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