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NYPD Muslim Informant Told To 'Get Pictures'

AP | MATT APUZZO and ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 05.20.2013 | New York

NEW YORK — A New York Police Department detective told a federal judge that he's seen no evidence that one of his informants brought up the subj...

The Speculations Of Judith Miller, Boston Bombing Edition

Matt Sledge | Posted 04.25.2013 | New York
Matt Sledge

Judith Miller, the reporter who covered the weapons of mass destruction beat for the New York Times in early 2003, had an op-ed for the Wall Street Jo...

Avoiding the Stereotype Trap After the Boston Attack

Glenn Katon | Posted 04.23.2013 | Politics
Glenn Katon

When it comes to the safety of our families and our country, the temptation to give in to stereotypes is powerful, but doing so actually undermines that safety.

Quinn: Agreement Reached Over Inspector General For NYPD Practices

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.19.2013 | New York

NEW YORK -- The New York Police Department would get a new watchdog under a deal city lawmakers reached Tuesday, propelling a plan galvanized by outra...

Former Cop Talks NYPD's Psychological Warfare Against Muslims

live.huffingtonpost.com | Posted 03.13.2013 | New York

Former NYPD Detective Marq Claxton joins Ahmed to discuss the NYPD's surveillance program and NYPD Commisioner Ray Kelly....

Matt Sledge

Ray Kelly Won't Say If He'll Read 'Mapping Muslims'

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 03.12.2013 | New York

NEW YORK -- Police Commissioner Ray Kelly dodged a question about whether he'll read a critical report on the New York Police Department's Muslim surv...

Matt Sledge

New Report Reveals 'Disturbing Impacts' Of NYPD's Muslim Spying Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 03.12.2013 | New York

NEW YORK -- A coalition of Muslim groups delivered a new report on the NYPD's surveillance program to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's doorstep on Mond...

A Black Eye for Democracy

Len Levitt | Posted 05.11.2013 | New York
Len Levitt

Call it a cri de coeur, a collective cry of the heart, from voices rarely heard -- the city's Muslim community, pushing back for the first time against the NYPD's secret spying on them for the past decade.

Matt Sledge

Mayoral Candidates Punt On NYPD Muslim Surveillance

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 02.12.2013 | New York

Among critics of the New York City Police Department's policing practices, it is a distressing contradiction. Many of the Democrats vying to replace M...

Matt Sledge

NYPD Spying Challenged In 40-Year-Old Lawsuit

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 02.05.2013 | New York

Civil rights lawyers are reaching more than 40 years into the past to curb the New York City Police Department's program of surveillance of Muslim com...

The NYPD's Big Lie

Len Levitt | Posted 04.06.2013 | New York
Len Levitt

The NYPD has violated a longstanding court order in its pervasive spying on Muslims and lied about it, according to papers to be filed today in federal court.

Handschu Lawyers File Against NYPD, Brennan Defended

Matt Sledge | Posted 04.06.2013 | Politics
Matt Sledge

The lawyers in the long-running Handschu civil rights lawsuit against the NYPD have made a new filing -- this time, over the police department's contr...

Lawyers Go After NYPD Muslim Spying

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER and EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 04.06.2013 | New York

NEW YORK -- Civil rights lawyers urged a judge Monday to stop the New York Police Department from routinely observing Muslims in restaurants, bookstor...

Matt Sledge

Latest Legal Filing In NYPD Muslim Spying Lawsuit

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 01.26.2013 | New York

NEW YORK -- "I'm laughing. I'm laughing on the phone right now," said Syed Farhaj Hassan. "That's hysterical." That's how Hassan reacted when he he...

Kelly and AP: Ray's Pants Are on Fire

Len Levitt | Posted 03.16.2013 | New York
Len Levitt

Ray Kelly was at his misleading best at the 92nd Street YMHA last week in trashing the Associated Press' Pulitzer prize-winning series about the New York City Police Department's widespread and pervasive spying on Muslims.

Matt Sledge

NYC Muslims Rally Against 'Climate Of Hostility'

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 01.09.2013 | New York

NEW YORK -- A coalition of advocacy groups and political leaders held a rally on Tuesday linking the subway pushing death of a South Asian man to a br...

AG Visits Mosque Listed In Secret NYPD Report

AP | SAMANTHA HENRY | Posted 12.01.2012 | New York

NEWARK, N.J. -- New Jersey Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa quietly visited a Newark mosque Friday that had been listed in a secret report by the New Y...

Informant: NYPD Paid Me To 'Bait' Muslims

AP | ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO | Posted 12.23.2012 | New York

NEW YORK — A paid informant for the New York Police Department's intelligence unit was under orders to "bait" Muslims into saying inflammatory t...

Muslim Leaders Are Told NYPD No Longer Spying In New Jersey

AP | SAMANTHA HENRY | Posted 11.05.2012 | New York

NEWARK, N.J. — The state attorney general assured a group of Muslim leaders Wednesday that a New York City police unit that conducted surveillan...

'We Should Pray For The AP'

Salon | Posted 09.01.2012 | New York

By Michael Tracey TAMPA — In order to enter the Republican National Convention, one had to pass through multiple layers of security, which involv...

NYPD Spying On Muslims Accomplished Nothing, Admits NYPD

AP | ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO | Posted 10.21.2012 | New York

NEW YORK — In more than six years of spying on Muslim neighborhoods, eavesdropping on conversations and cataloguing mosques, the New York Police...

'What?' Confused 911 Caller Outs NYPD Spying In NJ

AP | MATT APUZZO and ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 09.24.2012 | New York

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- He saw something. He said something. And he inadvertently uncovered a secret spying operation that the New York Police Departme...

A Stronger NYPD, a Safer New York

Brad Lander | Posted 08.15.2012 | New York
Brad Lander

This Sunday, on Father's Day, I will be marching with tens of thousands of other New Yorkers to call for reform of stop-and-frisk. We cannot accept a New York where people are subject to civil liberties violations based on the color of their skin.

NYPD Oversight Bill Introduced; NYPD Thinks It's Unnecessary

Posted 06.13.2012 | New York

Members of the New York City Council are introducing a bill Wednesday that would create an independent inspector general's office to oversee the NYPD....

Medals Are for Heroes

Len Levitt | Posted 08.11.2012 | New York
Len Levitt

This Tuesday when medals are given to 42 officers, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is recognizing the department's Intelligence Division and the office of Deputy Commissioner for Public Information. These units have been other than heroic.