December 6, 2013 When William J. Bratton takes over as commissioner of the New York Police Department early next year, he will inherit the country’s most powerful local counterterrorism force, but one that has alienated the city’s large Muslim community. “We need to heal some of the wounds, reopen the communications and the partnership,”…
October 25, 2013 A coalition of 125 religious, civil rights, and community-based organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice Thursday (Oct. 24) urging a civil rights investigation into a New York City Police Department program that spies on Muslims. Groups from several faith traditions signed the letter including the Presbyterian Church…
Judge will rule whether strict limits on surveillance apply to the NYPD’s investigations into hundreds of Muslims. A federal judge on Tuesday revisited at a decades-old court settlement restricting how the New York Police Department conducts surveillanceafter civil rights lawyers accused the department of breaking those rules by monitoring Muslims. The dispute centers on the restrictions…
NEW YORK — The New York Police Department had legitimate reasons to put specific mosques and Muslim worshippers under surveillance as part of its counterterrorism efforts, a city lawyer said Thursday at the first court date in a civil rights lawsuit accusing the NYPD of religious profiling. Peter Farrell of the city Law Department argued…
On Morning Joe Wednesday morning, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly fought back against allegations that the NYPD had monitored entire mosques in the course of counterterrorist operations, telling host Joe Scarborough that the charges were the result of two reporters with an axe to grind, and the police department’s tactics were conducted lawfully and in the interests of the city’s…
