The New York Police Department girdles the globe, Daniel Larison Philip Giraldi reports in the American Conservative, with agents of its “International Liaison Department (ILP)” in 11 countries, most notably Israel. These self-appointed experts are apparently not much appreciated by the U.S. State Department, but, you know, fahgeddaboutit, this is Noo Yawk, even when it isn’t.
Like any good cop, Giraldi knows the solution to any mystery—follow the money:
The ILP is funded by the private New York Police Foundation, which operates with little transparency. The foundation has been criticized [in the Village Voice] for picking up the tab for Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s $12,000 bill at the New York Harvard Club and also paid $400,000 for a public relations firm to improve Kelly’s image.
Actually, that part kind of reminds me of DC.
