EVENT INFORMATION

15
April
2014

NYPD closes the unit that mapped Muslim communities

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📅 15 April 2014 📍 United States

The NYPD closed its Demographics Unit, subsequently known as the Zone Assessment Unit, which had mapped Muslim communities. Civil liberties advocates welcomed the closure while warning that it did not end every form of discriminatory surveillance. The change was a concrete institutional retreat following exposure and litigation, with important limits on what had actually been dismantled.

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Organizations in this Event

NYPD; American Civil Liberties Union