I imagine if I were part of a community subject to random spying and accusations of disloyalty by the authorities … I'd be progressively less and less cooperative with the authorities. Wouldn't you?
I do understand the interest in watching for dangerous extremism in various elements of society. But the NYPD — and the FBI, and most law enforcement — have handled this in in a remarkably ham-handed and destructive fashion, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy of secretive, uncommunicative Muslims who don't report on possible problems. The only question in my mind is whether that was intentional or not. #ddtb
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Angry over spying, Muslims say: 'Don't call NYPD' – The Denver Post
NEW YORK—Fed up with a decade of police spying on the innocuous details of the daily lives of Muslims, activists in New York are discouraging people from going directly to the police with their concer…