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On a windy night last September, a New York City Police Department helicopter headed south from the city’s waterfront hangars into New Jersey and then west to Pennsylvania. The helicopter stopped in Philadelphia and Albany, New York, before returning to New York City seven hours later.
It costs nearly $5,000 to run this kind of helicopter for the four and a half hours it was in the air. Chartering a similar helicopter on the open market could cost just under $20,000. The NYPD won’t say ...