Some organizations have broadened their campaigns and collaborated with larger calls for police accountability, connecting issues of profiling Muslim communities with broader issues of racial profiling and policing in communities of color (CLEAR Project, 2013, p. 46).

Despite the request by some members of Congress that the Justice Department investigate the NYPD, John Brenna, President Barack Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser, stated that he was confident that the NYPD was acting lawfully and is keeping the city safe.

“it is clear that the surveillance program has, in fact, quelled political activism, quieted community spaces and strained interpersonal relationships….many American Muslim organizations and individuals hesitate to participate in protests, to lobby, and to speak out” (CLEAR Project, 2013, p. 20).

“a climate of fear and suspicion,”

unit “never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation”

In 2001, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) established a secret surveillance program called Demographics Unit, targeting Muslim communities within the city and in surrounding states.

The general public also called FBI tip hotlines which were mostly based on “fear, ignorance, and hearsay,” the callers attributing “suspicious activities” to “Arab men”

The Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) report found that guards at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York had lost relatives and friends on 9/11 and “harbored anger and vengeance toward the detainees” (p. 9) perhaps explaining why so many arrests were concentrated in New York.

9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon ultimately “provided the catalyst for rounding up and deporting over 1,000 Muslims in the three months after 9/11”

The game is fixed.

You broke the contract when you killed us in the street and didn’t give a fuck!

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