The Associated Press on Wednesday, 24/08/2011 lowered intelligence reports on the activities of the New York Police Department and the CIA's spy on the entire American Muslim community's daily activities. Listen to the report presented by hidayatullah.com in four parts.
The day was Tuesday, June 2, 2009, a guard building in New Brunswick, New Jersey, opened the door of apartment number 1076. Although the atmosphere was very comfortable day, but the guard found the sight very surprising; books about terrorism were scattered on the table and in the next room there is a set of computers and surveillance equipment.
Panic janitor who was then dialed 911,requested that police officers and the FBI soon came to a building located near Rutgers University that afternoon.
Apparently, what they find on the floor of one apartment building was not a terrorist hideout, but a command center built by a special team of the intelligence service of the New York Police Department (NYPD).
From the apartment, about an hour outside the jurisdiction of the police, the NYPD is conducting undercover operations and spy on the entire area of New Jersey. Local police and the FBI did not know about that activity.
Post-11 September 2001 attacks,the NYPD became one of the intelligence agencies in the United States the most aggressive.
Based on the results of investigations by the Associated Press during the months long, it was revealed that the NYPD has conducted operations far beyond their areas of responsibility and targeting ethnic groups, which if the operation was carried out by the federal government is violating the law on the freedom of citizens . And the operation had help from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), thus blurring the lines between intelligence activities in the country and abroad.
Both the city council that the funding of the NYPD, as well as the federal government is pouring hundreds of millions each year, no one was told about what really happened.
Lowered NYPD undercover teams consisting of security officers, known as 'rakers' sweeper. They parachuted into the environments of minority communities, as part of the human mapping program. Similarly, according to officials directly involved in the program.
The task of the rakers are monitoring the daily activities of the communities in which they are assigned, including activities in bookstores, bars, cafes and nightclubs.
Besides using the rakers, the police also use informants, known as the 'mosque crawlers'crawler mosque.
Specific duties of the mosque's crawler is spying on sermons and lectures delivered, despite the fact that none of the evidence that shows there is an error in it. Officials at the NYPD investigate all the priests and gather intelligence information about taxi drivers, street vendors selling food and other jobs that are often carried out by Muslims.
Most operations are done with the help of the CIA, which is actually prohibited from spying on Americans [CIA is the intelligence agency for overseas operations and the FBI in the country]. But the CIA's role in such a way that is inserted into the role of NYPD intelligence unit.
A veteran CIA official, who still received a salary from the agency, an architect of the NYPD's intelligence program.
CIA agents were training a police detective in Farm - CIA spy school in Virginia - and then send it back to New York, where he practiced the skills he learned to conduct espionage spying within the United States.
And recently, precisely last month, the CIA sent a senior officer to carry out clandestine operations inside police headquarters.
While the activities of spies NYPD unit that extends well known, many details about their clandestine operations - including those closely associated with the CIA - has not been previously reported.
NYPD deny allegations that they were 'fishing' within ethnic communities, and argued that they merely obeyed orders. In the city that often gets the threat of terror, the police felt no need to apologize for being exceeded its authority. NYPD intelligence operations he said, had foiled a terrorist plan and throw a number of potential terrorists to jail.
"New York Police Department will do anything to ensure that there will be no 9 / 11 here and there are no more innocent New Yorkers who were killed by terrorists," said NYPD spokesman Paul Browne.
"And we will not apologize for it," he added.
However, officials also said they are very careful to keep some information in order not to carry over to the court, where judges will probably have a different view. NYPD considers even basic information such as organization charts division as something secret intelligence and too sensitive to reveal in court.
One of the questions are endless for a couple of decades is, whether to be a safe part of freedom and privacy must be removed. The debate about it focuses among others on the problem of wiretapping and indefinite detention by the federal government.
Such questions seem to get less attention in New York, where the inhabitants do not know for sure what - if any - they sacrificed.
The story of how the NYPD Intelligence Division runs an aggressive program as above, assembled by the Associated Press based on interviews with more than 40 former and active officers in the NYPD and federal officials. Most of them were directly involved in the planning and execution of these covert operations. Although many of them admit that the tactics that the operation succeeded in making their city safer, but most insisted reluctant to be identified, because they were not authorized to speak to reporters about security issues
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