NYPD disbands Muslim-tracking unit amid concerns

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By | The Daily Beast The New York City Police Department is curtailing its spying ON the Muslim community, but it will continue spying IN the Muslim community. And it will do so as part of an ongoing counter-terrorism effort that includes the ...

NEW YORK - The New York Police Department (NYPD) has scrapped a secret unit of plainclothes detectives that ran detailed, invasive spying operations targeting the city's Muslim communities. The move was promptly welcomed by civil rights groups, ...

The New York Police Department announced Tuesday that it would disband a special unit charged with detecting terrorist threats by secretly conducting surveillance on Muslims in New York. Applauded by Muslim and civil rights organizations, such a ...

NEW YORK, April 16 (UPI) -- The New York Police Department will be discontinuing the activities of the Zone Assessment unit, a program that spied on Muslims after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. NYPD Chief Bill Bratton announced the end of the unit ...

The New York Police Department has reportedly ended a decade old controversial secret surveillance program, which was started to identify potential terrorism threats.According to the BBC, the Demographics Unit had dispatched plainclothes detectives ...

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