Response to Bratton/Miller's comments about gathering intelligence
Reader comment on item: NYPD Commissioner: Seeking Suspects' Intel "An Essential Element"

Submitted by Jim, May 14, 2014 11:52

As a long-term police official and part-time professor, I fully agree with Chief Bratton's assessment about the proactive approach regareding the collecting of important information from arrestees regardingother potential criminal activity. We've been doing that since organized police forces were formed. Prior to 9-11, nineteen foreign and future hi-jackers were traveling all over the U.S. and many had contact with law enforcement. Mohammad Atta got a speeding ticket prior to the hi-jacking. The world has changed. Extremists seek to do harm to this great nation because we are a roadblock to extremist Islamist goals. I worked detectives for years and always tried to ask about other crimes a perpetrator might have committed or had knowledge of--it's called "doing your job"!! Get off of NYPD's back. We've thwarted over 65 transnational terror attacks since 9/11 because of aggressive and proactive law enforcement. I might add that Ed is living in a fantasy land--Ed obviously has never worked the streets or has a clue about those who protect Americans day in and day out.

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