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AP IMPACT: NYPD keeps secret intelligence files on city Muslims who change their names

researcher13 years ago02 mins

NEW YORK — Muslims who change their names to sound more traditionally American, as immigrants have done for generations, or who adopt Arabic names as a sign of their faith are often investigated and catalogued in secret New York Police Department intelligence files, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. The NYPD monitors everyone…

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AP IMPACT: NYPD had surveillance on US citizens based on ethnicity, not any possible crimes

researcher13 years ago02 mins

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…

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