Intelligence, Muslim, Mapping 

Since 2001, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) has established a secret surveillance program
that has mapped, monitored and analyzed American Muslim daily life throughout New York City, and
even its surrounding states. In 2011, the unveiling of this program by the Associated Press (AP) and
other journalists1
who had obtained leaked internal NYPD documents led to an outcry from public
officials, civil rights activists, American Muslim religious leaders, and members of the public. Protesters
and advocates held that such racial and religious profiling was not only an example of ineffective
policing and wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars, but it also marginalized and criminalized a broad
segment of American Muslims. Almost a year later, in August 2012, the Chief of the NYPD Intelligence
Division, Lt. Paul Galati admitted during sworn testimony that in the six years of his tenure, the unit
tasked with monitoring American Muslim life had not yielded a single criminal lead.2 

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