At least 1,489 police officers have been shown an anti-Muslim film during training, according to documents obtained by the New York Times. A top police official denied in January 2011 that the department had used th efilm, then said it had been mistakenly screened "a couple of times" for a few officers.
In secret #NYPD document obtained by @AP: "Expand and focus intelligence collections at Shi'a mosques" http://t.co/JsEZIj5H #muckreads
A 2006 internal NYPD report recommended increasing surveillance of Shiite muslims and their mosques, based solely on religion, as a way to sweep the Northeast for Iranian terrorists. Commissioner Raymond Kelley said the investigations were based on geography, not demographics. Part of a series.
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The latest from @mattapuzzo and @goldmandc: The #NYPD "focused" its scrutiny on Syrian Muslim-Americans http://t.co/yqrTgMWo #muckreads
The NYPD and Mayor Bloomberg have asserted that religion does not guide their investigations, but newly obtained documents say, "in the clearest terms yet," that the police "focused" their scrutiny on Muslim Americans. A 2007 investigation into the region's Syrian population, for example, excluded Jews and "focused on the smaller Muslim community."
The rift between the #NYPD and #FBI has national-security consequences, @mattapuzzo and @goldmandc report. http://t.co/Vma9QQAw #muckreads
Though tensions between local police and the FBI are old news, friction between the NYPD, the largest police force in the nation, and the FBI, can have larger consequences for security. This is the latest in Matt Apuzzo’s and Adam Goldman’s Goldsmith Prize-winning investigation into NYPD’s Muslim surveillance.
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For 28 years, NYPD arrested thousands of people under three void laws: http://t.co/dZcIA4QO (via @kvirella) #muckreads
New York cops have arrested 22,000 people under voided laws that were struck down more than twenty years ago. This article details the legal challenge to get New York to stop enforcing voided laws on loitering, vagrancy, and cruising.
