NYCLU goes to court over NYPD's Muslim surveillance
The New York Civil Liberties Union announced today it is asking a Federal court for access to information about the NYPD's secret surveillance program that targets Muslim communities throughout the New...
View ArticleNYPD Moves To Settle Lawsuits Over Muslim Surveillance
In 2013, two separate lawsuits accused the NYPD of blanket surveillance of Muslims that violated the constitution and a consent decree that sprang from the department's surveillance of anti-war and...
View ArticleNYPD Ignores Some Rules on Political Spying
The New York City Police Department has guidelines to ensure its investigations of political activity don't violate constitutional rights. But a new report by the NYPD Inspector General says the...
View ArticleWhy Judge Rejected Settlement in the Muslim Surveillance Case
Raphael Pope-Sussman, features editor at the Gothamist, discusses the decision by a judge to reject what he considered an insufficient settlement between the New York Police Department and a group of...
View ArticleNYPD’s Legacy of Police Surveillance, From Black Panthers to Mosques to Black...
The NYPD’s tracking and monitoring of Muslims after September 11th triggered lawsuits that ultimately led to court settlements and new rules governing how the police could investigate ethnic...
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