Nypd Muslims

NJ Muslims Angry After NYPD Surveillance Findings

AP | SAMANTHA HENRY | Posted 05.25.2012

TRENTON, N.J. -- Muslim leaders in New Jersey say they are angry but uncertain what their next step will be after the state's attorney general found t...

WATCH: Rep. King Says NYPD Doesn't Racially Profile Muslims

Posted 05.14.2012

Representative Peter King (R-NY) said Monday during an appearance on CNN's Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien that "there is no racial profiling" by ...

House Dems Call For End To NYPD Muslim Surveillance

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.10.2012

WASHINGTON — House Democrats on Thursday urged the New York Police Department to purge its intelligence databases of information gleaned from it...

Obama Adviser Praises NYPD For Spying On Muslims, College Students

AP | SAMANTHA GROSS | Posted 04.20.2012

NEW YORK — President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser praised the New York Police Department's work Friday, saying the agency has str...

The Post Bashes The AP's Pulitzer As 'Non-Stop Hit-Job' On NYPD

Posted 04.17.2012

The New York Post came out lashing The Associated Press for their Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the NYPD's controversial Muslim surveillance prog...

AP Wins Pulitzer For Stories On NYPD Spying

AP | DEEPTI HAJELA | Posted 04.17.2012

NEW YORK — The Associated Press won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism Monday for revealing the New York Police Department's widespre...

PHOTO: Mosque Uses NYPD Surveillance In New Ad

AP | SAMANTHA HENRY | Posted 04.05.2012

NEWARK, N.J. — The leader of a New Jersey mosque that was listed in a secret NYPD surveillance report is using the incident to try and recruit n...

House Dems Slam Bloomberg Over NYPD Spying

AP | ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 04.02.2012

WASHINGTON — Ten House Democrats, including a member of the party's leadership and lawmakers who oversee intelligence and homeland security matt...

NYPD Infiltrated Liberal Groups Too

Posted 05.23.2012

By MATT APUZZO and ADAM GOLDMAN, Associated Press NEW YORK -- Undercover NYPD officers attended meetings of liberal political organizations and kep...

NYPD: Shredding the Constitution

James Zogby | Posted 05.17.2012

James Zogby

Arab and Muslim immigrants have become increasingly fearful of law enforcement. Trust has been broken. And trust between the community and the police is the key to any successful crime prevention strategy.

POLL: NYers OK With NYPD Spying On Muslims, Don't Like Stop And Frisks

AP | DEEPTI HAJELA | Posted 05.13.2012

Deepti Hajela, Associated Press NEW YORK -- Most city voters think the New York Police Department has been effective in fighting terrorism, and a ...

Q&A: Is NYPD Muslim Spying Legal?

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.12.2012

NEW YORK — A secret New York Police Department program to spy on Muslim businesses, infiltrate mosques and monitor Muslim students on college ca...

Cops, Mayors: NYPD Risks Access With Muslim Spying

AP | By DON BABWIN | Posted 03.11.2012

CHICAGO -- The tip was a surprise when it arrived on the desk of Ted Wasky. Had it not come, the former FBI agent fears five Muslim men in northwest O...

New Docs Reveal NYPD Focused Specifically On Muslims

AP | ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.09.2012

NEW YORK — The New York Police Department collected information on businesses owned by second- and third-generation Americans specifically becau...

Attorney General Disturbed By NYPD Spying

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 05.08.2012

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday he's disturbed by what he's read about the New York Police Department conducting surveil...

FBI Head: NYPD Spying Hurting Terrorism Task Force

AP | SAMANTHA HENRY | Posted 05.07.2012

NEWARK, N.J. — In a rare public criticism of the New York Police Department, the top FBI official in New Jersey said Wednesday that the departme...

NYPD Surveillance Shows No Good Deed Goes Unpunished For American Muslims

Sahar Aziz | Posted 05.06.2012

Sahar Aziz

So long as the police engage in systemic racial profiling and attendant criminal punishments, community outreach is futile, as well as disingenuous.

Ray Kelly To Meet With Muslim Leaders

AP | Posted 05.06.2012

NEW YORK — The New York Police Department's commissioner plans to meet with Muslim leaders amid criticism of police monitoring of Muslims after ...

NYPD Spying: Brilliance or Obsession?

Len Levitt | Posted 05.05.2012

Len Levitt

Within 24 hours after Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle died from accidentally crashing his plane into a Manhattan high-rise in 2006, the NYPD was searching for a terrorism link.

Top Cop Pledges No NYPD-Style Spying On Muslims

AP | HUGH DELLIOS | Posted 05.04.2012

OAK BROOK TERRACE, Ill. — For the first time in public, Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy promised his department will never conduct blanket s...

Bloomberg: Jersey's Complaints Of NYPD Surveillance Are 'Ridiculous'

AP | SAMANTHA GROSS and DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 05.02.2012

NEW YORK — An interstate feud escalated Friday when a New York congressman berated the New Jersey governor for "trying to score cheap political ...

NYPD, Muslims Are Americans Too

Jihad Al-Jabban | Posted 04.30.2012

Jihad Al-Jabban

I have spent most my life trying to prove I am an American, but there is no need to prove who I am, and no other American -- Muslim or otherwise -- should ever have to feel marginalized.

Attorney General Eric Holder Reviewing NYPD Spying Complaints

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN and PETE YOST | Posted 04.29.2012

WASHINGTON — Months after receiving complaints about the New York Police Department's surveillance of entire American Muslim neighborhoods, the ...

Ray Kelly Not Sorry About NJ Muslim Surveillance

AP | Posted 04.28.2012

NEW YORK — New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has no plans to apologize for an intelligence program that has been keeping tabs on M...

LOOK: NY Post Cartoon Depicts City Muslims As Terrorists, AP As Enablers

Posted 02.27.2012

A New York Post cartoon (see below) published Saturday, February 24th portrays New York City Muslims as would-be terrorists complaining to the Associ...