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The NYPD built the world's best surveillance system out of a secret deal

Over the past 25 years, the New York Police Department — the largest police department in the U.S. — has built one of the world’s most sophisticated surveillance systems. This was a result, in a part, of a secret deal that hid expenses from the public.

Planet Money’s Amanda Aronczyk reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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