{"id":19277,"date":"2015-10-20T14:04:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T19:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19277"},"modified":"2015-10-20T14:07:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T19:07:06","slug":"nytimes-the-nypd-is-using-mobile-x-ray-vans-to-spy-on-unknown-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19277","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic: The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantic: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/10\/the-nypd-is-using-mobile-x-rays-to-spy-on-unknown-targets\/411181\/\">The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets<\/a> by Conor Friedersdorf:<br \/>\nNew York City won\u2019t reveal how often cops bombard places, vehicles, or people with radiation\u2014or if there are health risks for residents.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dystopian truth is stranger than dystopian fiction.<\/p>\n<p>In New York City, the police now maintain an unknown number of military-grade vans outfitted with X-ray radiation, enabling cops to look through the walls of buildings or the sides of trucks. The technology was used in Afghanistan before being loosed on U.S. streets. Each X-ray van costs an estimated $729,000 to $825,000.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD will not reveal when, where, or how often they are used.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will not talk about anything at all about this,\u201d New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton told a journalist for the New York Post who pressed for details on the vans. \u201cIt falls into the range of security and counter-terrorism activity that we engage in.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantic: The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets by Conor Friedersdorf: New York City won\u2019t reveal how often cops bombard places, vehicles, or people with radiation\u2014or if there are health risks for residents. Dystopian truth &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19277\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curtilage","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19280,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19277\/revisions\/19280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}