9/11 and the Rise of the NYPD | PART TWO The Power of the NYPD in the 21st Century

After the September 11 attacks, the NYPD revamped its intelligence division and brought in a former CIA leader to run it. NYPD detectives were stationed in cities around the world, attempting to unearth plots and pass along information gleaned from other jihadist attacks in real-time. In the years that followed, New York City remained a target of terror attacks. In 2010, Faisal Shahzad failed to set off a bomb in Times Square. In 2017, Sayfullo Saipov drove into pedestrians near the West Side Highway, killing eight people. 

But it would be nearly a decade after the September 11th attacks before New Yorkers began to reckon with how far the NYPD’s surveillance expansion had gone.