RT | An independent police monitor found the New York Police
Department violated surveillance laws, particularly when spying on
Muslim groups. The report found NYPD’s intelligence division often
continued surveillance after court permission for it expired.
As far back as 2004, the
NYPD failed to get permission to continue investigations of Muslims
groups, the New York Inspector General said. For its investigation, the
IG used a sample of all cases closed between 2010 and 2015, some of
which go back to 2004.
In 25 percent of the cases, surveillance
investigations continue for more than a month past the when the bureau
should have obtained renewed authorization.
The report, released on Tuesday, found that more than 95 percent of the people under investigation in the cases were “associated with Muslims and/or engaged in political activity that those individuals associated with Islam.”
