Community leaders unknowingly become intelligence sources for the security state

Evidence

Community policing co-opts Muslim community leaders into gathering and sharing intelligence on Muslims’ political beliefs, religious practices, and other information otherwise unavailable to law enforcement due to constitutional constraints. Believing they are serving the best interests of Muslim communities, many unwitting participants disclose the goings-on of the community and provide information about the politics of community leaders and mosques. This enables law enforcement’s investigative arm to reach deeper into Muslim communities’ affairs than they could otherwise, resulting in a de facto deputizing effect. All the while, aggressive counterterrorism enforcement practices and policies focused exclusively on Muslims remain unchanged. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 624

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on the earlier chapters’ treatment of CVE and community surveillance; also evokes the informant-saturation theme from chapter on post-9/11 surveillance. — connects to: Muslim community leaders can be simultaneously partnered with and spied upon by police; Surveillance is founded on asymmetries of knowledge and power — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 254; State surveillance makes Muslim leaders perform Americanization while policing their own discourse — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 53
• SEED: Angle: how ‘partnership’ rhetoric hides de facto deputization of minority community leaders — a pattern generalizable beyond Muslim Americans.

Broader Connections

• Muslim community leaders can be simultaneously partnered with and spied upon by police #exemplifies (0.92)
• State surveillance makes Muslim leaders perform Americanization while policing their own discourse #exemplifies (0.88) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 53
• Surveillance is founded on asymmetries of knowledge and power #expands (0.82) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 254