Associated Press Primary Documents on NYPD Surveillance
Since August [2011], AP has been publishing stories from its ongoing investigation into secret intelligence operations set up by the New York Police Department following the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.
AP's investigation has revealed that the NYPD dispatched undercover officers into minority neighborhoods as part of a human mapping program. Police also used informants, known as "mosque crawlers," to monitor sermons, even when there was no evidence of wrongdoing.
The AP also determined that police subjected entire neighborhoods to surveillance and scrutiny, often because of the ethnicity of the residents, not because of any accusations of crimes. Hundreds of mosques and Muslim student groups were investigated and dozens were infiltrated. Many of these operations were built with help from the CIA, which is prohibited from spying on Americans but was instrumental in transforming the NYPD's intelligence unit after 9/11.
The Demographics Unit:
Albanian Locations of Concern Report
Egyptian Locations of Interest Report
Syrian Locations of Concern Report
Newark, New Jersey Demographics Report
Suffolk County Demographic Report
Nassau County Demographic Report
NYPD Note-Subject: Supervisors Conferral with Detective
Mosques:
NYC Mosque Statements on Danish Cartoon Controversy
NYPD analysis on Iranians in NY
Oct. 16, 2006 NYPD Intelligence Note
Student Groups:
Nov. 22, 2006 NYPD Weekly MSA Report
Political Groups
April 25, 2008 Deputy Commissioner's Briefing
Original documents found on Associated Press