Nypd Spying on Mosques

NYPD Surveillance: What We Don't Know, And Why It Matters

Brad Lander | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Civil Liberties, Nypd, Nypd Stop and Frisk, Nypd Scandals, Nypd Surveillance, New York City Council, Handschu Agreement, Nypd Spying on Mosques, Nypd Spying, New York, New York City, New York City Council Progressive Caucus, New York News

The truth matters. That's why I am working with my colleague Jumaane Williams, the Brennan Center for Justice, and other groups on legislation to establish an NYPD Inspector General.

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NYPD Surveillance Shows No Good Deed Goes Unpunished For American Muslims

Sahar Aziz | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Community Outreach, Counterterrorism, Nypd Muslims, Muslim Americans, Surveillance, Post 9/11, Spying, Nypd Spying, Nypd Spying on Mosques, FBI Surveillance, Nypd, Religion News

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

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Attorney General Eric Holder Reviewing NYPD Spying Complaints

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN and PETE YOST | Posted 04.29.2012

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

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NYPD: Newark Police Knew We Were Spying On Muslims

AP | By COLLEEN LONG and TOM HAYS | Posted 02.24.2012

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NEW YORK -- Officials in three states traded accusations over who knew what about a secret 2007 New York Police Department operation that monitored an...

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Dire Warnings Over Muslim American Terrorists Overblown, Study Finds

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Homegrown Terrorists, Video, Homeland Security, Terrorism, Muslim Americans, Charles Kurzman, Islamic Extremists, Muslims, Homegrown Terrorism, Nypd Spying, Nypd Spying on Mosques, House Radicalization Hearings, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A new study of homegrown terrorism involving Muslim Americans suggests that the alarm bells set off by Republicans in Congress over slee...

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Kelly on Muslim Spying: Who, Us?

Len Levitt | Posted 01.21.2012

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On the day the city's Muslims staged their first organized protest against the NYPD's secret and pervasive spying on their communities, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly denied the obvious.

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New York Muslims Rally To Protest NYPD Surveillance Program

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN and CHRIS HAWLEY | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Religion, Occupy Wall Street, Muslims, Nypd Spying, Nypd Spying on Mosques, New York Protests, Foley Square, New York Muslims, New York News

NEW YORK — Hundreds of Muslims prayed in a lower Manhattan park and marched to New York Police headquarters Friday to protest a decade of police...

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In NYPD Spying, A Yippie Legal Battle Echoes Again

AP | By CHRIS HAWLEY | Posted 11.17.2011

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NEW YORK -- Barbara Handschu had tried to remove her name from the agreement that is her legacy. More than a quarter century ago, after New York's po...

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NYPD Needs Investigation Over Muslim Spying Program, Says Civil Rights Panel

AP | By MATT APUZZO | Posted 12.19.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A former Homeland Security Department civil rights lawyer, speaking at a Justice Department civil rights conference Wednesday, implored ...

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AP Defends NYPD Spying Coverage Against Tabloid Criticism

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 11.23.2011

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NEW YORK -- For several weeks, the Associated Press has reported extensively on the New York Police Department’s secret surveillance of Muslim neigh...

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Brooklyn College Profs to Ray Kelly: Stop Spying on Muslims

Len Levitt | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Nypd, Cia, Religious Profiling, Michael Bloomberg, Profiling, Nypd Spying on Mosques, Nypd Spying, Brooklyn College, Racial Profiling, Nypd Scandals, New York News

Brooklyn College's Faculty Council denounced the spying on Islamic students, suggesting that the police department targeted them without any proof that they were engaging in terrorist activity.

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The NYPD: Spies, Spooks and Lies

Len Levitt | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Muslims, Spying, Nypd, Ray Kelly, Counterintelligence, Domestic Spying, Nypd Spying on Mosques, Nypd Spying, September 11 Anniversary, Nypd Scandals, New York News

The scope of the surveillance described in Intelligence Divison documents suggest that the NYPD may have targeted subjects without specific tips about wrongdoing. The spying has targeted virtually every level of Muslim life in NYC.

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The NYPD And Muslims In New York

Sarah Sayeed, Ph.D. | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Nypd, Muslims in New York, Violent-Radicalization-and-Homegrown-Terrorism-Prevention-Act, Islam, New-York-Muslims, Nypd and Muslims, Nypd and Islam, Nypd Spying on Mosques, Religion News

Since the news report last week suggested that every single mosque in New York City had been canvassed and "crawled," then effectively, there is no mosque in New York City that the police deem safe from terrorism.

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