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New York

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Tue Apr 15, 2014, 08:13 PM Apr 2014

NYPD to end Muslim surveillance program

AP
NEW YORK -- The New York Police Department said Tuesday it has disbanded a special unit whose efforts to try to detect terror threats in Muslim communities through secret surveillance sparked outrage.

The surveillance program by the NYPD Intelligence Division had come under fire by community activists who accused the department of abusing civil rights.

The program relied on plainclothes officers to eavesdrop on people in bookstores, restaurants and mosques. The tactic was detailed in a series of stories by The Associated Press and became the subject of two federal lawsuits.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9505012