NEW YORK—The Associated Press Tuesday released an update to its reporting series on how the NYPD monitored the city’s Muslim community, asserting the surveillance “never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation.”
The assertion is based on court testimony made June 28 by NYPD Assistant Chief Thomas Galati that was unsealed late Monday.
Galati said police label a business “a location of concern” if any groups of Middle Easterners are expected to gather there, according to AP. The police also gather information from people before proven guilt solely because of ethnicity and native language.
The series of reports won the AP Pulitzer prizes and detailed aspects of the NYPD’s surveillance efforts that were previously unknown to the public.
Meanwhile, a Quinnipiac University poll in March aimed at seeing what the public think about the way NYPD officers are doing their jobs found 63 percent approve and 58 percent approve specifically of the department’s methods of “dealing with Muslims.”
The NYPD press office, reached by phone Tuesday afternoon, declined to comment, directing The Epoch Times to send an emailed request. That email didn’t get a response before press deadline.
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