Under Bloomberg, the NYPD formed such a close collaboration with the CIA that 4 active CIA officers were working in the PD. Despite the CIA's ostensible prohibition on domestic spying, one of these spies said there were "no limitations" on what he could do nytimes.com/2013/06/27/nyr…
That same guy said he was not there simply to prevent terrorist acts but "to protect NYC citizens from turning into terrorists." This was of course the era of the NYPD's massive illegal surveillance and entrapment of the Muslim community. thedailybeast.com/the-inside-sto…
The person who formed the NYPD-CIA relationship was David Cohen who'd previously been CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia, a post he was appointed to by John "Khobar Towers" Brennan. Cohen was head of the CIA's NYC office in the lead up to 9/11.
Also, from TDB article above, it sound like Cohen created the National Resources Division of the CIA, an unfathomably massive domestic spying program which operates in every city in the US. Brief thread relating to that here ⬇️
Cohen was the NYPD's first Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence, a role that reports directly to the Chief of Police. His Intelligence division would go on to place officers in every single precinct in the city. nytimes.com/2002/01/25/nyr…
When asked if he ever worked in the World Trade Center, Cohen laughed and refused to answer: "You're going to have to ask C.I.A. where their offices were.''
BTW after Cohen retired, the next Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence for the NYPD was John Miller, a former ABC News reporter who interviewed Osama bin Laden in 1998. #MockingbirdMedia in action
