Posted on 08/31/2011 6:32:43 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
NEW YORK -Working with the CIA, the New York Police Department maintained a list of "ancestries of interest" and dispatched undercover officers to monitor Muslim businesses and social groups, according to new documents that offer a rare glimpse inside an intelligence program the NYPD insists doesn't exist.
The documents add new details to an Associated Press investigation that explained how undercover NYPD officers singled out Muslim communities for surveillance and infiltration.
The Demographics Unit, a squad of 16 officers fluent in a total of at least five languages, was told to map ethnic communities in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut and identify where people socialize, shop and pray.
Once that analysis was complete, according to documents obtained by the AP, the NYPD would "deploy officers in civilian clothes throughout the ethnic communities."
The architect of this and other programs was a veteran CIA officer who oversaw the program while working with the NYPD on the CIA payroll. It was an unusual arrangement for the CIA, which is prohibited from spying inside the U.S.
After the AP report, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the NYPD has kept the city safe and does not take religion into account in its policing. The NYPD denied the Demographics Unit exists.
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True. I suppose that it wouldn’t be so frigging frustrating if the govt would quit with the PC crap and call a spade a spade.
I would have no problem with a moratorium(permanent)on allowing muslims to immigrate to this country. I would also have no problem with deporting every single non citizen muslim.
I wouldn't have a problem with that.
The CIA helped them dood it. And domestic spyin’ is bad. m’kay. It’s bad. CIA agents aren’t allowed to see what’s on sale at Macy’s and tell each other. That’s domestic spyin’, too. m’kay. It’s bad.
GOOD! There are so many intelligent, and polite, people on FR that I won’t miss you or your ad hominen insults at all.
M’kay. Domestic spying is bad. And the CIA should NEVER operate within the US. M’kay. Like, that’s NEVER happened before! The Feds PROMISED! M’kay?
M’kay. Domestic spying is bad. And the CIA should NEVER operate within the US. M’kay. Like, that’s NEVER happened before! The Feds PROMISED! M’kay?
And all intelligence-gathering is spying, m’kay. If you find out what’s the most popular mosque on Atlantic Avenue and when Bingo night is, it’s spying, m’kay.
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