NYPD skirted surveillance laws to spy on Muslims

Chris0nllyn

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The New York Police Department chronically skirted rules intended to protect political groups from unwarranted government surveillance while investigating Muslims, the city's independent police monitor said in a report released Tuesday.

The audit, conducted by Inspector General Philip Eure, found that while the NYPD's Intelligence Division had valid reasons to launch investigations, it frequently extended them past court-mandated deadlines without proper authorization.

In 100 percent of the cases reviewed by the inspector general, the department also didn't adequately explain why it was extending investigations that hadn't turned up evidence of unlawful activity.
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"We believe we've adhered to the spirit and the letter of the law in each instance," the NYPD's top attorney, Lawrence Byrne, said at a news conference. "We don't break the law to enforce the law."

The report comes eight months after the city agreed to settle lawsuits accusing the department of waging a covert campaign of religious profiling and illegal spying.
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The report accused the division of failing to follow rules requiring that applications for permission to do undercover investigations "must state the particular role of the undercover in that specific investigation, so that the need for this intrusive technique can be evaluated."

The NYPD almost never included specifics in its applications, but instead repeatedly used "generic, boilerplate text," the reported added. "Tellingly, this boilerplate text was so routine that the same typographical error had been cut and pasted into virtually every application."
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/inspector-general-nypd-skirted-rules-surveillance-201028263.html?ref=gs
 
GURPS

GURPS

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was that under Giuliani or Bloomberg or DiaBlasio ?


[don't answer that, its a throw away question]
 
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