[From article]
The surveillance program, shut down by Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration in 2014, deployed undercover police officers and informants to monitor mosques and other Muslim meeting places in the New York metropolitan area in order to gather intelligence regarding potential terrorist activities.
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Judge (and former congressman) William J. Martini of the federal district court in New Jersey dismissed the suit in a February 2014 decision.
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Martini’s decision was a reasonable and commonsense application of the law. And, quoting the 1972 Supreme Court case, it cut to the heart of what this litigation is about—noting that what plaintiffs are really seeking is “a broadscale investigation, conducted by themselves as private parties armed with the subpoena power of a federal district court and the power of cross examination, to probe into the [NYPD]’s intelligence-gathering activities.”
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The appeals court reversed Martini in a melodramatic decision evoking memories of Jim Crow-era racial segregation, wartime internment of Japanese-Americans, and other historical wrongs.
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New York City’s Bloomberg-era effort to keep an ear to the ground in the Muslim community seems prudent, and Mayor de Blasio’s abandonment of this effort irresponsible. The Third Circuit’s haughty decision compounds this irresponsibility.
http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon1030ds.html
Dennis Saffran
If You See Something, Say Nothing
The NYPD’s effective and sensible surveillance of Muslim communities runs afoul of self-righteous courts.
October 30, 2015
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