On this National Day of Marijuana Smoking, we bring you a tale of some high quality grade paranoia—Janette Sadik-Khan, the city's transportation commissioner, allegedly pulled strings to unleash the NYPD on her neighbor because she was convinced he was using a video camera to spy on her.
Sadik-Khan apparently became concerned that a man living in a building across the street from her in the West Village was videotaping her and her family. So she contacted some folks over at One Police Plaza, and got a detective to come to her place. He reportedly saw something that maybe sort of looked something a little like a video camera at the man's apartment across the way, got a judge to sign a search warrant and discovered that the so-called camera was just a piece of equipment that couldn't record anything.
So, alas, no there will be web series documenting all of Sadik-Khan's hopes, dreams and wacky misadventures, but it's certainly nice to know how easy it is to get a cop to search your neighbor's apartment! "Sadik-Khan says, ‘I think he’s got a recording device.’ That’s pretty flimsy," a police source told the Post. "Why would the DA’s Office and the judge go along with that and sign off on a search warrant?" Then again, haven't we already heard the Post call Sadik-Khan a "psycho"? Is this all a conspiracy dreamed up by Range Rover enthusiasts designed to drive Sadik-Khan mad and kill bike lanes forever? Whatever, let's just hope we see Citibike operate under this kind of efficiency.
