Nope. It makes no sense at all.
Posted on 01/07/2016 12:59:41 PM PST by KeyLargo
NYC Settles Lawsuits Over Muslim Surveillance by Police
By tom hays, associated press
NEW YORK -- Jan 7, 2016
The New York Police Department will strengthen safeguards against illegal surveillance of Muslims in investigations of terror threats and install a civilian representative on an advisory committee that reviews the probes under the terms of a settlement of two high-profile civil rights lawsuits, lawyers said Thursday.
The announcement of a deal following months of negotiations formally ended litigation over accusations that the nation's largest police department cast a shadow over Muslim communities with a covert campaign of religious profiling and illegal spying.
"We are committed to strengthening the relationship between our administration and communities of faith so that residents of every background feel respected and protected," Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement.
The suits were among legal actions that followed reports by The Associated Press that revealed how city police infiltrated Muslim student groups, put informants in mosques and otherwise spied on Muslims as part of a broad effort to prevent terrorist attacks.
The settlement modifies and adds restrictions on surveillance set by the court-ordered Handschu decree, which was put in place in response to surveillance used against war protesters in the 1960s and '70s. The decree was relaxed following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks to allow police to more freely monitor political activity in public places.
Civil rights groups sued in 2013 in federal court in Manhattan, accusing the NYPD of breaking Handschu rules. A second suit filed that year in Brooklyn federal court by mosques, a charity and community leaders alleged that the department was discriminating against Muslims.
The city had begun settlement talks last year, and a tentative deal in the Brooklyn case had been reached in June.
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Nope. It makes no sense at all.
Another provision requires the NYPD to remove from a department website a 2007 report warning of a “radicalization” process that puts young Middle Eastern immigrants on a path to commit acts of homegrown terrorism. Muslim groups had called the findings faulty and inflammatory.
Can’t wait to hear what they have to say when the muslim rape gangs start up in NYC ...
Donald Trump Says de Blasio ‘Made a Terrible Mistake’ Shutting Down Mosque Surveillance
by Michael Patrick Leahy 19 Nov 2015
GOP Presidential front runner Donald Trump says New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio “made a terrible mistake” when he shut down one of the city’s intelligence units that engaged in surveillance of mosques suspected of being centers of terrorism.
“We had a very strong [intelligence] unit. We did a lot of surveillance of mosques in our city, in New York City, and from what I understand we’re not doing that any more [under Mayor de Blasio]. I think that’s a terrible mistake,” Trump, a New York City resident who began his real estate empire in Manhattan, told Breitbart Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Daily radio program.
Bannon asked Trump his view on the”firestorm of criticism from the left and the Republican establishment” about his statement he would “strongly consider” shutting down some mosques if necessary “particularly given what’s happened in Paris today with the prime minister talking about potential chemical and biological warfare.”
“I think that could very well happen. It’s getting worse and worse. There’s hatred, and there’s hatred like nobody’s ever seen, and it’s obviously emanating from and coming out of, among other places, the mosques. There’s tremendous, something going on in those mosques that is not lovely. That I can tell you and that you know,” Trump told Bannon.
Surveillance??
I thought a burka would stop that.
Surrendering pieces of our country incrementally......
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