Via Liberaland:
The New York Police Department has ended its “secret” spying on Muslims.
The decision by the nation’s largest police force to shutter the surveillance program represents the first sign that William J. Bratton, the department’s new commissioner, is backing away from some of the post-9/11 intelligence-gathering practices of his predecessor. The move comes as the federal government reconsiders and re-evaluates some of its post-9/11 policies, including the National Security Agency’s bulk data collection.
The Police Department’s tactics, which are the subject of two federal lawsuits, drew critic...
