
“The New York City Police Department’s heavily-criticized spying on Muslim residents did not produce any leads or help any investigations of terrorist activities, in a report a civil rights group calls a ‘vindication’ of the city’s Muslim community. According to the Associated Press, testimony unsealed Monday evening revealed that NYPD Associate Chief Thomas Galati said no conversations monitored by the department’s ‘Demographics Unit’ ever led to a case. The department initially denied the unit’s very existence after initial reports on it last August.”
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