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NYPD Pays $1 Million, Vows Surveillance Reforms After Settling with Muslims in New Jersey
The NYPD will pay more than $1 million in legal fees and damages, and pledge to end religious-based surveillance, as part of a settlement with New Jersey Muslims who alleged that police officers crossed the Hudson River in the years after Sept. 11 to monitor their mosques, stores and schools.
The lawsuit followed shocking revelations in the 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press series that the NYPD cast a wide net in its surveillance of Muslims -- even traveling outside New York to photograph license plates parked outside mosques and infiltrate Muslim Student Associations at colleges. The settlement mandates that the NYPD now notify New Jersey authorities, like municipal police and county prosecutors, when operating in their jurisdictions. But it can still conduct investigations across the Hudson River.
Also as part of the settlement, the NYPD confirmed that it dismantled the Demographics Unit that surveilled Muslims, and certain records from the Muslim surveillance operations will be expunged.
This is the third surveillance-related lawsuit that the NYPD has settled. Last year, as part of a settlement in New York, the NYPD barred religious-based surveillance under its so-called Handschu Guidelines and appointed a civilian monitor to oversee investigations of political activity. Its new policies regarding surveillance now extend to New Jersey. The NYPD will also allow the New Jersey plaintiffs to recommend changes to the NYPD's training policies as they pertain to religion and the First Amendment.
Also at Reuters, NYT, and Al Jazeera.
(Score: 2) by Entropy on Monday April 09 2018, @03:46AM (3 children)
In a 2013 Poll (Reference: http://www.pewforum.org/files/2013/04/worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-full-report.pdf) [pewforum.org] 81% of US Muslims said violence is never justified to "defend" Islam. This is of course a poll, sometimes people lie.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Bot on Monday April 09 2018, @07:52AM (1 child)
Let's assume the same percentage of muslims are peaceful. The problem is that they will do nothing when things like these happen (source, the notoriously right wing site called google, first page results for "pakistan accused burning koran")
20 Aug 2012 ... An 11-year-old Christian girl has been arrested after being accused of blasphemy by burning pages of the Quran
21 Aug 2017 ... A Christian Pakistani teenager narrowly avoided being beaten to death after being accused of burning a Quran, according to reports. The 16-year-old had to be rescued by officers after a mob broke into a police station to try and kill him.
4 Jul 2012 ... A Pakistani mob has taken a man accused of blasphemy from a police station and burnt him to death, police say. The man was being held for allegedly burning a copy of the Koran in public.
Will this lot of peaceful muslims play by satan's rule "the end justifies the means" and shrug it off, or will they fight for the right of unbelievers to unbelieve?
Never mind. Back to the topic. STOP FUCKING WHINING. If the police abuses their power, hang them by the balls, I can't care less. If OTOH the police were investigating mafia and NOT TARGETING Italian immigrants, I would say they are doing a piss poor job. If I go to a foreign country (and people here went over to yugoslavia to buy fuel cigs and meat, I don't care if they take my fingerprints or follow me anywhere. IT IS THEIR FUCKING PLACE THEY SHOULD TAKE CARE OF IT. Just as simple.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @12:04PM
How many Christians have stood by while the great American standing army has been used to commit atrocities or protect business interests? OOps can't run that poll.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @11:45AM
So 19%, or about 1 in 5, are willing to say they think violence is justified?
And what does 'violence to "defend" Islam' mean anyway?
It could be anything from 'forcibly restrain someone attempting to firebomd a mosque' to the historic 'convert to islam or die'.