Islamophobic documentary films were integrated directly into NYPD officer training

Evidence

Journalists brought details of the NYPD’s secret surveillance program to light in 2011. The news generated considerable criticism from Muslims and civil rights organizations, particularly regarding the program’s overt reliance on racial and religious profiling. In the midst of the controversy, the chief of the NYPD intelligence division admitted that the program had not produced one criminal lead since its inception. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 578 (#complicates, via linked claim)

The report also points to “Radicalization Incubators” that set Muslim men on a path to radicalization. These are places such as mosques, cafés, student associations, nongovernmental organizations, and bookstores. We now know that these are exactly the places that the NYPD sent spies and “mosque-crawlers” to monitor Muslims. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 575 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A pseudodocumentary claiming Muslims seek global domination was used as police training material. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 683; Extremist Islamophobes are mainstreamed as law-enforcement educators and conference speakers — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 694; Right-wing anti-Muslim propaganda is screened to police as official training — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 695 (+16 more)

Broader Connections

• Law enforcement agencies operationalize the ideology that Islam is inherently violent #qualifies (0.95)
• The NYPD surveillance program produced no criminal leads during its existence. #complicates (0.95) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 578
• The NYPD surveilled ordinary Muslim community spaces designated as radicalization incubators. #complicates (0.95) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 575
• Police training promoted a clash-of-civilizations doctrine labeling Islam intrinsically violent #complicates (0.90) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 924
• Anti-Muslim training films frame Muslim moderation claims as deception #complicates (0.90) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 32
• Official NYPD language conflates orthodox Muslim practice with violent jihadism, licensing profiling #complicates (0.90) — Sahar F. Aziz, Sticks and Stones, the Words That Hurt, 109
• The NYPD treated ordinary Muslim community spaces as terrorism incubators #complicates (0.90) — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 1130
• NYPD’s radicalization model makes Muslim identity itself a predictor of terrorism #complicates (0.90) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 486
• NYPD treated ordinary religious observance as a terrorism indicator #complicates (0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 926
• The NYPD radicalization theory equated growing piety with growing terrorist risk. #complicates (0.85) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 574
• The NYPD ran a secret blanket surveillance program targeting Muslim communities #complicates (0.80) — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 1001
• Islamophobic propaganda about mosques seeded hearings and counterterror surveilling of Muslim communities #complicates (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 697
• The NYPD surveilled Muslims without reasonable suspicion through a dedicated Demographics Unit #complicates (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 923
• Broadcasters reran a terrorism-teaching film despite documented real-world damage #complicates (0.70) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 740
• The NYPD surveilled Muslim communities across a one-hundred-mile radius #complicates (0.70)