[View the story "NYPD under fire for spying on Muslim students" on Storify ]NYPD under fire for spying on Muslim students Criticism grows as more details of a controversial monitoring programme emerge. Storified by The Stream · Mon, Feb 27 2012 12:14:37
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On February 24, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the actions of the New York Police Department and its commissioner, Ray Kelly, in monitoring Muslim communities and organisations. Bloomberg said the NYPD did not break any laws but rather used preventative measures to keep the city and its surrounding regions safe.
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This secret NYPD demographics document obtained by the Associated Press shows the ancestries and ethnicities of those targeted by the NYPD.
On February 22, the Associated Press released this 60-page secret report that shows Muslim communities in the town of Newark (in the state of New Jersey) were monitored by NYPD for several months during 2007. The NYPD sent "mosque crawlers" and "rakers" undercover to compile pictures and descriptions of the Muslim community. The report contains no allegations of criminal behavior.
This document reveals that the NYPD monitored 15 Muslim student associations on 16 college campuses across the northeast United States. The NYPD found no suspicious threats of terrorism.
On February 24 the New York Post published this cartoon caricaturing Muslims who were monitored by the NYPD as terrorists.
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The cartoon evoked strong, wide-ranging reactions, with some denouncing the cartoon as racist and inaccurate, while others believed the cartoon to be realistic and comical.
Apparently blatant racism is still okay at the NY Post if it is directed towards Muslim-Americans: http://t.co/MPB6oBOEIan A. Smith
WTF Sean Delonas? "Racist NY Post Cartoon Portrays Innocent Muslims As Terrorists" #KKKartoonisthttp://t.co/fAKOoFSM http://t.co/6Q2n4JQBLina K.
“@gbmegafan: CAIR Outrage Alert: Calls NY Post Cartoon “Racist” — “Islamophobic” — “Anti-Muslim”… http://t.co/z8ty4VXW #tcot”TRUE & FUNNY!BentnWasted
Muslims complain about another cartoon this time in New York Times. Pathetic muslim extremists. http://t.co/CUIIMsG2Rob Simpson
Since the reports of the NYPD's extensive surveillance programme surfaced, Muslims and other supporters have staged protests condemning what they believe to be NYPD's Islamophobia, racism, and unlawful use of power.
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The Handschu Guidelines are a set of rules that were established in 1985 to oversee the NYPD's surveillance programme. The rules dictate that NYPD officials can only investigate an alleged crime after receiving a specific lead. After the attacks on September 11, 2011, however, the rules were relaxed. The NYPD insists it did not break any laws, according to the modified Handschu Guidelines, during its surveillance of the Muslim community.
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"The Third Jihad" is a documentary that argues that a violent and cultural jihad is being waged against the United States by Islamic groups. The documentary was allegedly shown in NYPD offices in 2010 to over 1,000 officers as part of its counter-terrorism training. NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly makes an appearance at the 55:42 mark. Kelly later regretted appearing in the film and called the material in the documentary "objectionable."
The Third Jihad: Radical Islam's Vision for Americajoyousinjesus
People gathered in front of NYPD headquarters to protest the department's clandestine surveillance programme and its screening of "The Third Jihad" as a training video for police officers. Muslims believe the documentary is anti-Islamic and paints a false portrait of the Muslim faith.
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Netizens used the hashtag #myNYPDfile to poke fun at the NYPD surveillance programme.
"Sir, many of the students work at @DunkinDonuts. This must be a takeover plot, since America runs on Dunkin." #myNYPDfileOmar Ranginwala
We started #myNYPDfile. Why make them waste resource,energy,$ in secret spying? Just tell 'em what u do. I look at pork but I don't eat it.Wajahat Ali
I think our government is more of a threat than these Muslims getting on their knees to pray are. #myNYPDfileSharmin Ultra
"Age unknown, militant about AMC programming, armed w explosively loud voice + frequently seen w radical lit such as NYT & Ms." #myNYPDfileIsmat Sarah Mangla
#myNYPDfile "She genuinely likes flying & travel, sir. Yeah, we've given her all the pat-downs. Doesn't stop her--I think she enjoys it."Fatemeh Fakhraie
"They're speaking in code, I think we've cracked it...'7pm dinner' means...8:30pm dinner" #myNYPDfileKhurram
Sir, he said he was going to the bathroom to make "voodoo". Hurry, before he casts a spell on all of us non-Muslims! #myNYPDFileNader
"Sir, I've confiscated their praying rug, but it does not seem to fly like the one found in Aladdin." #myNYPDfileOmar Ranginwala
"Sir, these Moslems seem really obsessed with something called Biryani. Could be a code-word. Alert intel." #myNYPDfile.Wajahat Ali
"Sir, he is definitely reflecting characteristics or at LEAST potential of a #Tweetorist!"#myNYPDfileHisham Fageeh
A group of students at the University of Pennsylvania held a protest on February 24. Students carried manila folders with the label "My NYPD File" to show solidarity with the university's Muslim student association that was monitored by the NYPD. Several university presidents, including those at Yale and Columbia, have publicly criticised the NYPD's surveillance of their campuses.
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report by the New York Civil Liberties Union found that NYPD officers stopped and searched black and Hispanic suspects in much greater percentages than white suspects during the first quarter of 2011. However, the officers were less likely to find any evidence that justified their search, according to the report.
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