Adi Talwar
An NYPD camera located on East Fordham Road Avenue in the Bronx. Public oversight has lagged as the department's electronic surveillance capabilities have multiplied.
Public oversight might finally start to catch up with the NYPD’s unparalleled city-wide network of surveillance cameras, license plate readers, gunshot detectors and environmental sensors.
The move to bring in outside management for some of the authority’s Section 8 properties is not the first, but comes at a sensitive time for the agency.
The city’s evacuation zone maps used 2003 data. Some federal maps may have predicted a wider area of flooding. But scientists also made Sandy storm-surge predictions that were dwarfed when the tropical system rolled in.
Oakland is a place where urban America is confronting two questions: Does the federal government know how to help fight local crime? Can it afford to?
In documents describing the multimillion-dollar Ring of Steel surveillance network, the redactions are as revealing.
An unfinished system to track city employees’ hours already costs 10 times what was budgeted. What now?
The police department plans to install hundreds of additional video surveillance cameras around Manhattan, and the entire city.
Curious about the ‘Ring of Steel’ in lower Manhattan? The NYPD has made its privacy guidelines public.
For noncitizens, marrying an American is still one of the easier ways to get legal residency. But it’s gotten a lot harder.
A 2005 survey found that keystroke monitoring was used by 36 percent of companies queried. Fifty-five percent of companies perused employee e-mail messages and 76 percent tracked websites visited by employees.
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