Bill de Blasio Cripples NYPD Surveillance of Muslim Terrorism If Jihadists can kill Americans here, they can kill them anywhere. Daniel Greenfield
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/261384/bill-de-blasio-cripples-nypd-surveillance-muslim-daniel-greenfield
Bill de Blasio has already overseen a few of these stage managed surrenders to criminals and terrorists. So this isn’t by any means surprising. It should however be remembered that if a successful terror attack occurs in New York, it will be because Bill de Blasio crippled the NYPD at the behest of Islamic groups.
The NYPD didn’t admit any wrongdoing, and the city won’t pay any damages other than about $1.6 million for the plaintiff’s legal fees. The department instead agreed to codify civil rights and other protections required under the court-ordered Handschu decree, which was put in place in response to surveillance used against war protesters in the 1960s and ’70s. The decree was relaxed after the Sept. 11 terror attacks to allow police to more freely monitor political activity in public places.
Civil rights groups sued in 2013 in federal court in Manhattan, accusing the NYPD of breaking Handschu rules. A second suit filed that year in Brooklyn federal court by mosques, a charity and community leaders alleged that the department was discriminating against Muslims.
Among the plaintiffs in the Brooklyn case was Hamid Hassan Raza, an imam who claimed the NYPD’s practice of cultivating informants and using undercover investigators had spread fear and suspicion at his mosque.
It also prevented terror attacks. So now NYPD counterterrorism, which used to be good, is as crippled as national counterterrorism under Obama.
Under the deal, the Handschu guidelines will specifically ban investigations based on race, religion or ethnicity. Other provisions require the department to use the least intrusive investigative techniques possible and to consider “the potential effect on the political or religious activity of individuals, groups or organizations and the potential effect on persons who, although not a target of the investigation are affected by or subject to the technique.”
Start spreading the news, the Big Apple is vulnerable today. If Jihadists can kill Americans here, they can kill them anywhere.
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