NEW YORK — Qazi Qayyoom, an imam in Queens, says he believes the New York Police Department is keeping his community safe, and if that means some Muslims are monitored, so be it. “The police, they come to us and say, ‘Is everything OK? How can we help you?” he said Monday. “They are not…
It was still several hours before Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly was to meet with Muslim leaders whom he had invited to Police Headquarters on Tuesday. But the meeting was already drawing criticism, underscoring how precarious the commissioner’s scattershot style of aggressively defending his department’s counterterrorism efforts could be. The closed-door meeting between Mr. Kelly…
WASHINGTON — Months after receiving complaints about the New York Police Department’s surveillance of entire American Muslim neighborhoods, the Justice Department is just beginning a review to decide whether to investigate civil rights violations. Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress the status of the review Tuesday. The announcement bothered some Democrats, who said they were…
NEWARK, N.J. — The report was stamped top secret. Inside was a confidential dossier compiled by the New York Police Department documenting “locations of concern” in Newark — the city’s 44 mosques, Muslim-owned restaurants and businesses and Islamic schools. In 2007, the NYPD began an undercover spy operation within New Jersey’s largest city to find…
A spokesman defends the action, but a Muslim student chaplain sees ‘a violation of civil rights.’ The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students more broadly than previously known and at schools far beyond the city limits, including Ivy League colleges Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania, the Associated Press has learned. Police…
