AP IMPACT: NYPD Eyed US Citizens In Intel Effort

[cory777]

Source: Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department put American citizens under surveillance and scrutinized where they ate, prayed and worked, not because of charges of wrongdoing but because of their ethnicity, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The documents describe in extraordinary detail a secret program intended to catalog life inside Muslim neighborhoods as people immigrated, got jobs, became citizens and started businesses. The documents undercut the NYPD's claim that its officers only follow leads when investigating terrorism.

It started with one group, Moroccans, but the documents show police intended to build intelligence files on other ethnicities.

Undercover officers snapped photographs of restaurants frequented by Moroccans, including one that was noted for serving "religious Muslims." Police documented where Moroccans bought groceries, which hotels they visited and where they prayed. While visiting an apartment used by new Moroccan immigrants, an officer noted in his reports that he saw two Qurans and a calendar from a nearby mosque.

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[Angry Dragon]

1. They should start following around all those catholics that

send money overseas to that foreign country Vatican City..........
I hear they hide criminals there

[BetsysGhost]

2. wrong

pedophiles are actually Terrorists.

I do agree with you however.

[truebrit71]

3. Or the fuckers that openly supported the IRA with cash donations in "irish" bars...

...fucking fuckers that they are..

[No Elephants]

4. Profiling, going on in Rick's Casino?

Oh, wait, that works only for gambling.

Anyone have any idea which percentage of Arabs are observant Muslims? (Religious Muslims is a phrase only for the ignorant.)

Me neither, but I'm guessing over 90%.

When did it become criminal or suspect in the US to own the holy book of your own religion? Or a calendar showing when your religion requires you to, oh, I don't know, fast for a month?

(For those who are not aware, Muslim religious observances are based on the lunar calendar, not the slightly modified solar calendar you can pick up at your bank or stationery store.)

For that matter, when did having a particular religion become suspect? When 19 people out of 1.4 billion flew planes into the WTC?

Nothing unconstitutional about any of this, I'm sure.

[Trillo]

5. Sounds like Marketing Research, paid for by taxpayers by a ruse.