The NYPD surveilled Muslims without reasonable suspicion through a dedicated Demographics Unit

Evidence

In the most aggressive mass surveillance program since 9/11, the New York Police Department (NYPD) established a web of informants who compiled dossiers on thousands of Muslims, designated mosques as potential terrorist organizations, recorded religious sermons, and surveilled congregations without reasonable suspicion of illegal activity. A new Demographics Unit tasked with mapping Muslims in the Tri-State Area entailed plainclothes officers eavesdropping on political conversations in cafés where Muslims congregate. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 923

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The NYPD ran CIA-trained surveillance of Muslim communities without suspicion grounds; Anti-Muslim resistance organized across racial lines against NYPD surveillance; The CIA-trained NYPD ran a human mapping surveillance program of Muslim communities