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The NYPD’s ‘Moroccan Initiative’Posted on Sep 22, 2011
An Associated Press investigative team revealed in an article Thursday ways that, sometime around 2003 or 2004, part of the New York Police Department transformed from being a public security service that solved murders and muggings to a mini domestic intelligence agency that targeted the Moroccan Muslim community. Secret documents from what police had dubbed “The Moroccan Initiative” showed that some NYPD officers were recording and compiling as much information as they could about the city’s 9,000-person Moroccan community, down to the most minute details, even on leads that had no clear criminal component. Police said the initiative was meant to help the city be prepared should it ever receive a specific tip about a Moroccan terrorist. The AP said it is unclear exactly when the initiative started, but that officials said it began in response to suicide bombings in 2003 that killed 45 people in Casablanca and a 2004 train bombing in Madrid that was linked to Moroccan terrorists. And it is equally unclear whether the initiative continues today in any variation of its original form. —BF
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By He is, February 16 at 8:34 pm Link to this comment
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” ...idiots authority…promising equality…so where is the land of the free?? stop it you’re killing me…”
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What happened to our Constitutional rights…search and seizure anyone? If we can’t trust our own citizens than who can we trust? We have muslims in our own military. We have become a police state…Farenheit 451?
Report thisBy berniem, September 22, 2011 at 1:11 pm Link to this comment
What’s to wonder? All this is just another example of the militarization of civilian law enforcement on the way to the rise of a full-fledged police state! FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!!
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