NYPD simultaneously courts and surveils the same mosques it publicly honors

Evidence

Even the most mundane facts of their lives: The New York City Police Department released a report in August 2007 which claimed that the “emerging threat” to law enforcement resides with “unremarkable” Muslim men under thirty-five who visit what the reports dubs “terrorism incubators”: mosques, “cafés, cab driver hangouts, flophouses, prisons, student associations, nongovernmental organizations, hookah (water pipe) bars, butcher shops and book stores,” in other words, precisely the places where I have been hanging out. I can attest from my experience to the false conclusions of the report, which it seems to me seek to justify the NYPD’s antiterrorism budget. But perhaps the more pertinent question about the report concerns how we have arrived at a place where the NYPD assumes that every average Muslim under thirty-five is a potential terrorist. Something has surely gone terribly wrong when law enforcement premises its work on policing the ordinary and the unremarkable. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 1130 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The NYPD surveilled Muslim communities across a one-hundred-mile radius; The NYPD treated ordinary Muslim community spaces as terrorism incubators — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 1130

Broader Connections

• The NYPD treated ordinary Muslim community spaces as terrorism incubators #expands (0.85) — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 1130
• The NYPD surveilled Muslim communities across a one-hundred-mile radius #expands (0.80)