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According to an Associated Press article, they had conducted an investigation that discovered that NYPD had dispatched more than the usual number of undercover officers into ethnic communities. This is to monitor the daily going-ons in the area. The undercover officers were also tasked to scrutinized more than 250 mosques and Muslim student groups in the years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks....   >>>

According to an Associated Press article, they had conducted an investigation that discovered that NYPD had dispatched more than the usual number of undercover officers into ethnic communities. This is to monitor the daily going-ons in the area. The undercover officers were also tasked to scrutinized more than 250 mosques and Muslim student groups in the years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.



In an interview, NY Mayor Bloomberg explained this indirectly with the statement: "If there is a community where the crime rate is very high, to not put more cops in that community is ridiculous. If you want to look for cases of measles, you'll find a lot more of them among young people. That's not targeting young people to go see whether they have measles or not."



The concern of Muslim civil rights groups with regards such a viewpoint is that it can be construed as racial profiling - that is, if it is not already.