The head of the Police Department's intelligence unit, David Cohen, is a former C.I.A. official, and the agency has a senior clandestine officer embedded in the New York police force.
"The question," said Thomas A. Reppetto, president of the Citizens Crime Commission, "is whether these changes will become permanently embedded in the N.Y.P.D. police culture, as happened after the 1970's Knapp Commission investigation when the 'pad' system of organized payoffs was broken".
Pieces of a cross and a stake were found embedded in the tires, police said.
The team spent almost nine months embedded in the case, tracing the police investigation, interviewing witnesses – some of whom the police never spoke to – and trying to answer two questions: what happened in the case and, more importantly, where was Jacob?
Or imagine how much law firms would pay to have their messages embedded in the sirens of police cars or ambulances.
An Afghan security official with extensive knowledge of southern Afghanistan said the tactic of using assailants embedded in the army or police forces to kill their coalition partners was a particularly worrisome one and had become one of the three main Taliban tactics.
He says their plans to destroy his government and Turkey are being carried out by disciples of his former ally and "bogus prophet", Fethullah Gulen, a Pennsylvania-based Sunni Muslim cleric, who are embedded in the judiciary and the police.
They saw closed streets, police emergency units, heavily armed officers, metal barriers, a barricade embedded in the road and a police dog.
Privately, senior officers claim there are "without question" more corporate spies embedded in the protest movement than police officers.
