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 communities and political groups.
But despite those limits on police investigations, attorneys and others who represent activists for groups affiliated with the Black Lives Matters movement say they see similarities in how NYPD approached the Muslim community after 9/11 and how civil rights groups are being investigated today.
And they say New York City’s history shows that political pressure can bring swift changes and undo years of hard-fought limits on how far police can go to infiltrate and investigate activists or ethnic communities.
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