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  • CA: Los Angeles police plan to map Muslims

    11/09/2007 9:35:27 AM PST · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 45 replies · 307+ views
    Yahoo ^ | Friday November 9, 2007 1 hour, 32 minutes ago | AP
    LOS ANGELES - Civil rights advocates criticized plans by the Los Angeles Police Department to map the city's Muslim communities, calling it racial profiling. ADVERTISEMENT The LAPD's counterterrorism bureau plans to identify Muslim enclaves in order to determine which might be likely to become isolated and susceptible to "violent, ideologically based extremism," said Deputy Chief Michael P. Downing on Thursday. "We want to know where the Pakistanis, Iranians and Chechens are so we can reach out to those communities," said Downing, who heads the counterterrorism bureau.Downing said the plan is still in its early stages, but the LAPD wants to...