Documents show NYPD’s spy unit pushing officers to eavesdrop in minority communities

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Documents show NYPD’s spy unit pushing officers to eavesdrop in minority communities
By Associated Press, Updated: Wednesday, August 31, 4:11 AM

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.”




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[truthisfreedom]

1. Color me surprised.

Something in brown would do.

Does anyone wonder if this is not the current procedure?

[Kelvin Mace]

2. We live in a "de facto" police state

I keep saying this, but the majority of the time, people think I am crazy.

Then I lay out my case, and they mutter about my "having a point", but claim "things will get better"

[Raschel]

4. I try not to think about all of the tools the local police have at their disposal.

They use them to bring down some small criminal or to put money in their own pockets, like the Strike Gang Force crimnals in Minneapolis.

[Raschel]

3. They don't survey and infiltrate of Wall St. and those who have brought financial destruction and

oppression on our country. That would never happen because they're already in bed together.

[fascisthunter]

5. fascist police state

boy, it must be great being a minority in America... I bet minorities felt grand in Germany around the 30's too. Too many parallels...