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So the NYPD is getting into precrime "detection" like the PRC. Are they going to beat confessions out of "guilty" thoughtcrime "perpetrators" too?

>>cvccvr+(OP)
They definitely already do that it's an important part of the role of police. Chicago did it so much they made a special compound for it, but it's not like chicago invented the practice or are the only ones ever to have done it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homan_Square_facility

>>cvccvr+(OP)
Not new. Seeing as the NYPD also surveils people well outside of the city: https://www.nj.com/news/2012/02/nypd_muslims.html

>>cvccvr+(OP)
>Are they going to beat confessions out of "guilty" thoughtcrime "perpetrators" too?

Have police across the country NOT been doing this for decades now?

>>cvccvr+(OP)
>Are they going to beat confessions out of "guilty" thoughtcrime "perpetrators" too?

Though talking about the LAPD instead of NYPD, this joke has been going around since the early 1990's:

The LAPD, the FBI, & the CIA are all trying to prove that they are the best at apprehending criminals.

The President decides to give them a test. He releases a rabbit into a forest and each of them has to catch it.

The CIA goes in. They place animal informants throughout the forest. They question all plant and mineral witnesses. After three months of extensive investigations they conclude that rabbits do not exist.

The FBI goes in. After two weeks with no leads they burn the forest, killing everything in it, including the rabbit and they make no apologies. The rabbit had it coming.

The LAPD goes in. They come out two hours later with a badly beaten bear. The bear is yelling, "Okay, okay, I'm a rabbit, I'm a rabbit!"

>>prions+I3
NYPD sends undercover cops across state lines to spy on other states' residents that are engaged in lawful activities. It's well documented.

The NYC government has traditionally treated their police force as its own personal millitary and intelligence service, and neighboring states as hostile foreign enemies.

>>cvccvr+(OP)
The "tough on crime" political rhetoric of the past few years is partially to blame. People get upset when cops "aren't doing anything", and they criticize district attorneys and judges when they drop charges for lack of evidence. They get worked up and afraid over crime when crime is lower than 30 years ago.

>>p_j_w+04
in the event people want to read about one of the most egregious instances of this in recent times: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homan_Square_facility