In hundreds of reports stamped "N.Y.P.D. Secret," the Intelligence Division chronicled the views and plans of people who had no apparent intention of breaking the law, the records show.
And nice little vacations for the investigators:
New York undercover officers were active themselves in at least 15 places outside New York - including California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montreal, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas and Washington, D.C. - and in Europe.
I'll wager that if you looked at the locales they visited, they would not be skanky places.