The international team also directly relays information back to the New York Police Department intelligence division.

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They spent 10 years in the U.S. during a formative period of their lives, exhibiting normal behavior for first-generation immigrants, said Mitchell Silber, a former intelligence official in the New York Police Department.

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The brothers spent 10 years in the U.S. during a formative period of their lives, exhibiting normal behavior for first-generation immigrants, said Mitchell Silber, a former intelligence official in the New York Police Department.

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Mr. Silber is director of intelligence analysis for the New York City Police Department.

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The civil rights lawyers want a federal judge to appoint an outside monitor to oversee the NYPD's intelligence-gathering operations, which the police department is strongly resisting.

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President Obama nominated Erroll Southers, the Los Angeles airport police department's chief of homeland security and intelligence, in September -- eight months after taking office.

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Intelligence-led policing as practiced by the New York Police Department is a significant reason why we have not been successfully attacked again.

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