"A recently released government report indicates that a record number of wiretaps (1,186) were approved by state and federal judges in 1997. The average number of conversations intercepted by each tap was 2,081, meaning that over two million separate conversations were surreptitiously overheard. 73 percent of the taps were approved as part of narcotics-related investigations. These figures represent only those cases where neither of the parties to a conversation was aware or approved of the tap.
New York topped the list of states in which wiretaps had been approved with 304. New Jersey was second with 102."
reprinted from THE WEEK ONLINE WITH DRCNet, ISSUE #42 -- MAY 15, 1998
http://www.drcnet.org/rapid/1998/5-15.html#wiretaps
[posted June 22, 1998]
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