NYPD Camera Points Directly Into Their Bedroom

On a quiet street in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, a camera owned and operated by the New York City Police Department points directly at the bedroom window of Pamela Wridt and Robert Sauve.

“It can see potentially directly into any part of our house,” Sauve told The Intercept.

The camera is one of tens of thousands that feed into a massive warrantless surveillance system that police use to track and profile millions of New Yorkers each day.

Many of the cameras — including those mounted to drones and helicopters, as well as stationary cameras like the one just outside Wridt and Sauve’s bedroom and living room — are owned, operated, and bear the logo of the NYPD.

Footage from tens of thousands of other privately owned cameras, however, like those posted outside of shops, b