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National Coalition Decries NYPD Spying As Symptomatic of Erosion of Civil Freedoms

http://www.civilfreedoms.org/?p=9922

A coalition of national and local organizations, whose mission is to educate the public about the erosion of civil and political freedoms in our society has issued a statement protesting the surveillance of Muslim students by the NYPD. The Associated Press has revealed that from 2006–2009, the New York Police Department was carrying out illegal surveillance of Muslim students and their organizations as far removed from their jurisdiction as universities in upstate New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, indeed all over the northeast with neither cause nor warrant (see AP Report).

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http://www.civilfreedoms.org/?p=9922

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