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The problem with the NYPD is clearly systemic. They have never met a boundary they are not willing to cross; whether that is the right to privacy, or the right to not be racially profiled, or the right to not be shot if you are unarmed.


COLORLINES: Go FOIL Yourself.
Notes: 1 4/4/12 — 4:05pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZlJkxvJ4mB49 Filed under: #nypd  #surveillance  #muslim americans  #go foil yourself 
GO FOIL YOURSELF! Join the mass campaign for NYPD transparency.



YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW IF YOU, YOUR BUSINESS, OR MOSQUE WERE AMONG THE THOUSANDS SUBJECTED TO THE NYPD’S ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE!

So what can you do? GO FOIL YOURSELF!

With GO FOIL YOURSELF, there can now be strength in numbers. If the NYPD is secretly collecting information on you, you have the right to request that information. The more requests that are filed, the stronger the message sent to the NYPD.

Notes: 1 3/28/12 — 12:20pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZlJkxvIi0YiK Filed under: #GO FOIL YOURSELF  #NYPD  #surveillance  #muslim americans  #taking a stand 
ACLU: Our FOIA documents show that the FBI used the guise of "mosque outreach" to illegally gather intelligence on mosques and Muslim religious organizations.


Retention of information gathered through “mosque outreach” in its intelligence files violates federal Privacy Act prohibitions against the maintenance of records about individuals’ First Amendment-protected activity.

3/27/12 — 1:01pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZlJkxvIeuGpP Filed under: #FBI  #Not the NYPD  #Muslims  #Illegal  #ACLU 
For the First Time Ever, LAPD Probe Finds Officer Guilty of Racial Profiling
3/27/12 — 12:25pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZlJkxvIepYEq Filed under: #nypd  #lapd  #thanks for setting an example  #racial profiling  #seriously 
View the List of Liberal, Human Rights, International Aid, and Social Justice Groups Infiltrated or Spied On by the NYPD.

“The April 2008 memo offers an unusually candid view of how political monitoring fit into the NYPD’s larger, post-9/11 intelligence mission.”

Seriously — click on their websites (linked below). Learn more about them.

Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) / War Resisters League* / May 1st Coalition / International Action Center IAC / People’s Justice for Community Control and Police Accountability / Mexican Action Network on Free Trade / Jena Coalition / Critical Resistance / Domestic Worker United / International Solidarity Movement / United States Marzist-Lenin Party / Malcolm X Grassroots Movement / The Friends of Brad Will / etc / etc / etc /

*Nothing says dangerous terrorist like “War Resisters League”

3/23/12 — 4:05pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZlJkxvIRpEnp Filed under: #nypd  #If this doesn't infuriate you what does?  #surveillance  #political agendas  #international aid  #social justice  #wtf 
100 Civil Rights Groups Call on Department of Justice to Investigate NYPD for Spying on Muslims

“With the mounting evidence of these civil rights abuses, we urge the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division to investigate the NYPD’s surveillance activities. The NYPD has extended its surveillance well outside of New York state, prompting members of Congress from New Jersey and elsewhere to ask for a federal investigation. This is now a national civil rights crisis, and the Justice Department must act accordingly.”

Notes: 3 3/23/12 — 2:46pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZlJkxvIRcgZZ Filed under: #nypd  #take action  #surveillance  #spying  #civil rights  #muslim americans 
Undercover NYPD officers attended meetings of liberal political organizations and kept intelligence files on activists who planned protests around the country.


Flaherty said the event described by police actually was a film festival in New Orleans. Flaherty said he recalls introducing a film about Palestinians but spoke only briefly and does not understand why that landed him a reference in police files.

#Latest AP Report

Notes: 1 3/23/12 — 12:43pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZlJkxvIRMgda Filed under: #nypd  #latest ap report  #myNYPDfile  #spying  #surveillance  #shocking and egregious 
Rather than preventing the "13 terrorist plots" deterred by the NYPD, a part of the spying program led by police informants may have even led to their creation. These informants first identify young, poor, and in some cases mentally “unstable” Muslims, and encourage them to plot to attack New York City.



According to Kelly, 13 plots to attack New York City have been deterred since September 11, 2001, none of which were prevented by Kelly’s program.

Colorlines.com reports that rather than preventing these plots, a part of the program led by police informants may have even led to their creation.

These informants first identify young, poor, and in some cases mentally “unstable” Muslims, and encourage them to plot to attack New York City. As reported by the New York Times, some of the cases that Kelly has identified as having been “deterred” would not have existed without encouragement from police informers.

In the most recent case, an NYPD “informer provided companionship and a staging area so Mr. Pimentel, a Muslim convert, could build three pipe bombs while the Intelligence Division of the New York Police Department built its case.”

Notes: 3 3/16/12 — 2:50pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZlJkxvI4h-GU Filed under: #nypd  #surveillance  #spying  #Muslim  #Ray Kelly  #Scary 
"If we conducted stops according to census data, half of all stops would be women."


NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly delivers world’s most bewildering sentence while defending stop-and-frisks and surveillance today.

#IThinkWe’reFinallyGettingToHim

3/15/12 — 9:28pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZlJkxvI2rn4c Filed under: #nypd  #surveillance  #spying  #muslims  #racial profiling  #stop-and-frisks  #ray kelly 
NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Management and Budget Edmund Allocco said directly that the NYPD does not have the staff and resources necessary to keep track of budget information.



“Commissioner Kelly was not able to provide me information on how the $60 million in the Intelligence Unit is being spent – how much for the Terrorist Interdiction Unit, Special Services Unit, and Demographics (now apparently renamed the “Zone Analysis”) Unit, nor how much is being spent on the surveillance of Muslims, on CUNY campuses, or of Occupy Wall Street.” - Councilmember Lander

“Unfortunately, we simply do not currently have the transparency, accountability, or trust needed to have confidence that the NYPD is following the law or spending our money wisely.”

Notes from Ray Kelly’s testimony today before City Council on NYPD’s surveillance and counter-intelligence programs.

Notes: 7 3/15/12 — 3:27pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZlJkxvI1cvLD Filed under: #NYPD  #Occupy Wall Street  #Spying  #you're doing WHAT with our money?