The New York Police Department has equipped x-rays in some of its vans but it?s refusing to talk about them due to ?security concerns.? Even though these x-ray vans reportedly cost $825,000 a piece, NYPD is staying completely silent about them and their purpose.
?Those are issues I?d prefer not to divulge to the public at this time,? NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said, NYMag reports. ?I will not talk about anything at all about this ? it falls into the range of security and counter-terrorism activity that we engage in.?
Bratton was asked to comment on a request from the NYCLU to file an amicus brief to force more transparency in the NYPD?s use of this advanced equipment.
?They?re not used to scan people for weapons,? the Commissioner added. ?The devices we have, the vehicles if you will, are all used lawfully and if the ACLU and others don?t think that?s the case, we?ll see them in court ? where they?ll lose! At this time and the nature of what?s going on in the world, that concern of theirs is unfounded.?
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